but they dont evangelise....
The whole world was asleep. Everything was quiet, nothing moved, nothing grew. The animals slept under the earth. One day the rainbow snake woke up and crawled to the surface of the earth. She pushed everything aside that was in her way. She wandered through the whole country and when she was tired she coiled up and slept. So she left her tracks. After she had been everywhere she went back and called the frogs. When they came out their tubby stomachs were full of water. The rainbow snake tickled them and the frogs laughed. The water poured out of their mouths and filled the tracks of the rainbow snake. That's how rivers and lakes were created. Then grass and trees began to grow and the earth filled with life.
2007-03-13 06:51:19 · 13 answers · asked by Zen禅Maiden :ジェダイ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The minimum widely-accepted timeframe for the arrival of humans in Australia places this at 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. The upper range supported by others is up to 70,000 years ago.
2007-03-13 06:56:52 · update #1
nobody knows how they got there, not even them.
it is thought that they invented sea travel, 40000 years before anyone else, then forgot about it.
2007-03-13 06:58:29 · update #2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indigenous_Australians
2007-03-13 06:59:10 · update #3
Did you know their language is one of three used in the world today that is not latin based.
PROUD
2007-03-13 06:55:20 · answer #1 · answered by Cheyenne 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and they thrive now, even though their British neighbors push Catholisicm. Their God resembles the native American's Great Spirit in that those tribes that committed to themselves to Him were somehow void of diseases or other plagues when other people from other countries arrived in their lands, talking about a Pope and bowing down to a king.
Isn't it amazing how the Old Testament Jews were much the same way, having God as their guiding light, having only to believe in Him was their way to success.
God is very omnipresent, He has had this plan since before Satan lied to Adam and Eve.
2007-03-14 05:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by kaliroadrager 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the Judeo-Christian God predates even this story. The Aborigines were descendants of Ham, after the Flood, and after they spread out across the Earth after the Tower of Babel. During the time immediately following the Flood about 4,400 years ago, the Ice Age lowered the sea level and created land bridges all over the world. This allowed Noah's descendants to move freely all over the world. The further these cultures moved away from the "parent" culture, the more they lost knowledge of the God who brought them through the Flood, and the more they began to make up their own religions and legends. As the Ice Age came to a close, water levels rose and cut these people off from the rest of the world, which was the case with the Aborigines. Eventually, descendants of Japheth (Europeans) came into contact with the Aborigines. The Japhethites had preserved the record of the Flood via the Bible, which had been preserved through the meticulous records of the Shemites (Semites).
2007-03-13 14:03:02 · answer #3 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
The Indian Vedas have an oral tradition of over 9000 years.
For some reason I dont beleive you... When did aborigines arrive in Australia??
2007-03-13 13:54:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that aboriginal religions change? Did you know that there is no single aboriginal religion? They are different in every area of the Earth.
Did you know that some aboriginals practice canibalism? Did you know that antiquity doesn't mean authenticity?
Did you know that some aboriginals don't have religion per se?
I have tremendous respect for aboriginal religions, but that doesn't mean that all of them are necessarily better or more "authentic" than anything else.
2007-03-13 13:58:14 · answer #5 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Australian aboriginal mythology probably represents animism and totemism in its most pristine form and as such is likely to be very close to the original expression of human spirituality. i love the idea of dream time and it does provide a unifying theme for their mythology/religion. as their mythology/religion is unlikely to have changed very much from their arrival in Australia 40,000 to 60,000 years ago it is easiest the oldest set of beliefs on earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime#Dreamtime_and_The_Dreaming
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/oceania/aboriginal/articles.html
2007-03-13 14:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
what a beautiful story, i had never heard it before. it sounds similar to the native american things i have read.
where did you read it was the oldest? i always see animism when i do a google search on ancient religions. i would love to read more.
thanks for sharing!
edit: sorry just realized you said maintained!
2007-03-13 13:57:03 · answer #7 · answered by mommynow 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
LOL a snake tickling a frog, that is quite a picture to imagine.
2007-03-13 13:54:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Dreamtime...
2007-03-13 23:55:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have the oldest one that we *know of.* :)
At least their mythology doesn't involve sending people to hell who don't agree with them.
Kinda makes me wish they *had* evangelized...
Peace.
2007-03-13 13:56:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋