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The Dreaming

par cécile chapeliere
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Before the Dreaming , the was a flat , featureless place , devoid of life . Then giant beings came down from the , came from across the and emerged from within the earth . At their arrival the Dreaming began and life was born .

In the of Australia , the Djanggawuls sisters gave birth to .
In Australia , Iterkawara broke the marriage laws and as punishment was turned into stone , forever intuned in the . ( = Chambers Pillar )
On the coast Baiame shaped landscape , and when his work was complete , he stepped onto a and back into the .

As they moved across the , the giant bodies shaped the earth , creating and mountain ranges . In everything they touched , they left their essence making the landscape sacred to those who honor the dreaming - the first Australians .

« If you think about the ancient that Europeans looked to , such as the dynasties of the pharaohs in Egypt , then even they are young compared to the period when humans were coming to Australia .  »

The first Australians numbered more than tribes , each with their own , laws and territorial boundaries . A civilization encompassing the entire .

« We've had this debate about Australia was a terra nullius . And it was a wasted landscape . And people hadn't used it and hadn't founded it . they've discovered it . In fact , it probably supported about 1 . 6 billion lives . And that's how productive Aboriginal people were able to make this part of the earth , which has the most irregular and unreliable rainfall and the driest on .  »

«  80 , 000 years , 000 years , doesn't matter whether it's , 000 years . It's an incredible length of . It's the living on earth . And if you can't learn something from these that are successful , then you're really defying your own intelligence .