What are some famous stories from the Dreaming in Aboriginal culture?

Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories – Jukurrpa

  • The Rainbow Serpent.
  • The Seven Sisters.
  • Warlugulong – Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.
  • Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming)
  • An Introduction, Awelye Represented in Paintings.
  • The Stories of Karen Napaljarri Barnes.
  • The Stories of Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty.
  • The Stories of Sarrita King.

What are indigenous Dreamtime stories?

The Dreamtime is a term that describes unique stories and beliefs owned and held by different Australian Aboriginal groups. The history of the Dreamtime word and its meanings says something about the development of the ideas held about the Aboriginal world, and how they are expressed through art.

What are Aboriginal Dreamtime stories for kids?

Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories

  • The Rainbow Serpent. At the beginning of the Dreamtime, the earth was flat and dry and empty.
  • Tiddalick the Frog.
  • Aboriginal Creation Story.
  • Eaglehawk and Crow.
  • Emu and the Jabiru.
  • Emu and the Jabiru Story Explanation.
  • Gulaga.
  • How the water got to the plains.

Why did the Aboriginals tell Dreamtime stories?

Aboriginal people disclose their Dreaming stories to pass on imperative knowledge, cultural values, traditions and law to future generations. Their Dreamings are passed on through various customs such as ceremonial body painting, storytelling song and dance.

What is the story of the Seven Sisters?

In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas. He was forced to hold up the sky for eternity, and was therefore unable to protect his daughters. To save the sisters from being raped by the hunter Orion, Zeus transformed them into stars.

What is the story of the Rainbow Serpent?

As a protector of water, the Rainbow Serpent also controls water, so he has the power over life and death in the desert. In Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory the Rainbow Serpent is associated with rituals of abundance and propagation in the natural world, and of fertility and well-being in human society.

What lessons do Dreamtime stories teach us?

In History and Geography, Dreaming stories can provide an Aboriginal perspective on:

  • the formation of geographic features; and.
  • the reasons for certain connections between people and the land; and.
  • customs, culture and kinship systems.

What is the Rainbow Serpent story about?

Why is 7 sisters called 7 sisters?

The name is derived from seven elms which were planted in a circle with a walnut tree at their centre on an area of common land known as Page Green. The clump was known as the Seven Sisters by 1732.