Dreaming, or 'Tjukurrpa' (australia.gov.au), are words to describe the knowledge that the Aborigines passed on every generation through stories, song cycles, laws, ceremonies, dance and forms of art (from Retroactive 1). Some dreamtime stories tell great sea journeys and dramatic beginning, some tells how animals developed their peculiar traits, some tells awesome landscapes changes and subsequent campsite moves in which came from the people of Australia (from Australia Aboriginal Heritage). One famous example of dreamtime stories is the Rainbow Serpent, which is the story telling about the great creator of the world. There are many similarities with the dreamtime stories even though there are more than 600 different cultures, the point of the story never …show more content…
Around 500,000 Aborigines were divided into about 70 different social groups, and in each group, everyone relates to each other in some way. Most of the languages spoken in small groups are already extinct, the elderlies only speak some languages, but only small amount are vigorous. To understand the way people relates to others, we have to learn the physical, religious, and social structure in order to understand their culture and religion. In a physical structure, ‘a language group of about 500 people is made up of bands of about 10-20 people each in which joins while hunting. Each band of people can be called a “horde”. There are several families in a horde.’ (From aboriginalculture.com) In the religious structure, people are usually divided into two groups, or ‘moieties’. These two groups will then separate into more groups in order to pass different information to as many groups as possible. The social structure is the way people relate to each other, or kinship. Each person connects to another organized by the elders of the group. That is why non-aboriginal people get proud when then were accepted by the social