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I am searching for material on spirits, rituals, myths and songlines. More specifically, books or websites that deal with the beliefs of inner Sydney's former owners. I believe these are the Cadigal, Darug or Eora people (I'm uncertain which are considered the traditional owners). I'm not interested in the beliefs of other Aboriginal peoples.

There appears to be a complete absence of such information on the internet. Your help would be much appreciated.

2007-09-13 01:39:58 · 3 answers · asked by Callow Pigeon 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Here is a link to their creation account http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_13.html

And here is a link to some of the Flood Stories found in Australia http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Australia

2007-09-13 01:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0 0

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin is the best I've come across

2007-09-13 01:48:59 · answer #2 · answered by Jack P 7 · 0 0

needless to say a faith turns into mythology after it dies out. the form faith takes is basically based on the form of society. E.g. the extra centralised the political device is, the extra based and centralised faith would tend to be. Pre christian faith which has grow to be particularly mythology now, has been rooted out over a era of roughly 2 hundred years by capacity of the RCC. They first grabbed the ability and then began taking posession of the temples and their wealth. the technique grew to become into finalised whilst in many bishopries interior the 6th and seventh century heathens have been given the alternative: get baptised or we confiscate each little thing you have interior the call of god and our very own handbag. The jewel of the crown got here whilst the pope provided himself to the king of the Franks with some pretend records so referred to as written by capacity of Constantine the large and Saint Peter himself wherein the pope grew to become into given total Italy and western europe. considering he grew to become right into a modest guy or woman (popes are continually modest whilst they attempt to get some thing) he took in straightforward terms a great area of Italy. From then on human beings had to have faith what their lords believed. needless to say christianism, islam and hinduism at the instant are not eternal. they are going to get replaced by capacity of ideals that for the duration of large condition extra perfect with society. one ought to declare we already see a number of aspects of recent faith, collectively as on the comparable time aspects of the previous religions are transforming into mythology already. New aspects: celebrities, the want for high priced products promising prestige, the two tier society (prosperous and undesirable) for which faith will come across a justification. previous aspects: X-mas, processions, many rituals.

2016-10-10 12:08:06 · answer #3 · answered by nicklow 4 · 0 0

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