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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.
- 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.
What is it?
-A sequence of activities involving gestures, words and objects performed in a sequestered place and designed to influence an audience
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
- connected with the land and other members of the community
- because there is no written language this is how rituals are passed down.
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