Aboriginal Conceptual Beliefs

Getting prepared for the desert trip we’re taking in 2 weeks time, I started reading about Aboriginal history and myths.

Talking about conception, Aborigines believed that in the beginning the world was an immense featureless flat floating disc. On tjukurita times, mythical giant creatures appeared. They had many similarities with aboriginal rituals and life style and planted an inexhaustible number of eternal spirit children .

Tjukurita era finished and the giant creatures died, but natural features stand where they’ve performed any tasks. This way, the mythical snake man became a watercourse, the camps of mythical creatures are now mountain ranges, and so on.

The spirit children – independent beings, about the size of a sand grain, who will became the children – o continued living in some welcoming spot, until they choose their mother and enter her body to develop into a child.

I found this story amazing because it, at the same time, sees humans as part of nature, children as community blessings and the individual as an independent decision capable being, since early times. I guess our scientific society has a lot to learn with the native inhabitants of this planet.