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Features of Aboriginal Spirtuality
Summary: The concept of "the dreaming" is a central feature in aboriginal religions. It explains the creation of the world and its creatures. Many of these traditions were incorporated into early forms of Christianity.
A basic feature of all aboriginal religions is "the dreamtime," the aboriginal concept of the beings when ancestral beings formed the land and, its features, animals, plants and the laws that kept everything in existence. The dreaming is a more correct expression of an event that cannot be placed in time, as the events and ancestral beings that bought them about are caught up in an eternal moment that is an ever present reality. At the dreaming the world was a formless mass from which the ancestral beings emerged. These beings, sometimes human form, sometimes animal. They travelled around the land creating the physical features of the environment, as well as its peoples plants and animals. after this period of creating, some ancestral beings were transformed into a particular site where their spirits remain. Others moved on, leaving part of their spirit behind. this explains how the dreaming...
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