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Aboriginal Spirituality

Aboriginal Australians

-Have inhabitied Australia for 60,000 to 80,000 years

-Have performed thousands of rituals on the land

- 600 different dialects spoken across Australia

- All but 20 of these are endangered

Australian Aboriginals

Ritual in Aboriginal community.

Conclusion

- The smoking ceremony is a traditional welcome ceremony

- It cleansies the soul

- An aboriginal childs first smoking ceremony is the birth smoking

The Smoking Ceremony.

The rules and laws laid down in the Dreamtime, are continually repeated because of the beliefs and messages they teach.

Ritual

- What is a ritual important to you?

- Did the person sitting next to you have the same experience?

- WHY?

Ritual is more than actions,

- it is a celebration

- Reflects significant beliefs and values

- Links to the past

- Depicts significant events

- Acknowledge change of status

- Can bring about emotional healing

- and make a spiritual connection to a divine world.

What is it?

Dolly Snell performing the smoking ceremony on her grandson

-A sequence of activities involving gestures, words and objects performed in a sequestered place and designed to influence an audience

The Smoking Ceremony

WRONG

Beliefs about the ceremony:

Beliefs

- Placenta is buried - show connectedness to the land.

- Smoked- To cleanse, ward off bad spirits and to heal

- Gubanu and Conkerberry trees' smoke - has healing properties and the power to ward off bad spirits.

- Provides traditional medicine and insurance

- Enriched with natural antibodies

to protect themselves

Purpose

Leo after the smoking ceremony

- connected with the land and other members of the community

- because there is no written language this is how rituals are passed down.

Connection

This is what Australia will look like .

Aboriginal Birth Smoking Ceremony

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