PROJECTION OF SPIRITUALITY AND INNER LIFE ; origin of being… ; the stories about our landscape and our past…
The landscape often becomes a product of our imagination (internal life) and tells us a great deal about our identity. The aborigines tell stories about who they are and where they come from. In most stories of the Dreaming, the Ancestor spirits created the animals, plants, rocks and other forms of the land. Animals and plants recall the eternal ancestors to the aborigines and interpret their connection to the land. Previously their ancestors wandered the earth in animal form – as kangaroos, lizards or emus – or in human shape.
For example, Uluru is not just a sandstone rock to the aborigines as it is to many Westerners. In Aboriginal mythology Uluru is the Intelligent Snake from the higher spirit realms of the universe who brought forth a great rainbow. From this rainbow a huge spirit snake slithered down to earth. Uluru is depicted by Aborigines as a symbol of fertility and is considered to be the father and mother of all forms of life.
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