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Recognition of Country

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We wish to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land and the diverse nature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.  

We pay respect to the Elders, past, present and future, and celebrate their stories, culture and traditions, 
and especially their Kadaisha men and women who carry the esoteric knowledge of the Ages.

                                     The Creation Period - The Dreamtime

Similar to other religions, there was a time in Aboriginal belief when things were created. This “Creation Period” was the time when the Ancestral Beings created Landforms such as, certain animals digging, creating lagoons or pushing up mountain ranges or the first animals and plants being made. The Aboriginal word for this Creation Period varies throughout Australia and each linguistic region has its own beliefs pertaining to that particular area. For example, it is known as Alcheringa (Aljuringa) amongst the Aranda of central Australia, as Lalai in the Kimberly, and as Nayuhyuigki amongst the Kunwinjku (Gunwinggu) east of the Kakadu national park.

Aboriginal people often interpret dreams as being the memory of things that happened during this Creation Period. Dreams are also important because they can be a time when we are transformed back into that ancestral time. This linking of dreams to the Creation period has led people to adopt the, general term “The Dreamtime” in order to describe the time of creation in their religion.
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The term “Dreamtime” in Aboriginal mythology is not really about a person having a dream,:but rather, a reference to this Creation period,

All aspects of Aboriginal culture are full of legends and beings associated with this creation period, or Dreamtime. Each tribe has many stories, often with a lesson to be learned or a moral tale, about the creation period deities, animals, plants, and other beings’ These stories are told to children, discussed around campfires, and are sung and acted out in plays and dances during the times of ceremony. When an adolescent progresses through their phases of initiation, they learn the more important, senior and secret parts of these stories, and this knowledge is reinforced by the acting-out of more secret-sacred rituals, songs; and dances.

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