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- About Me:
- Yaama, Gayaa ngaya nginaayngu dhurraandhaay dhayndi ngay.
(Greetings, I am glad to write to you about my people.)
Yaama nginday , dhagaan, bawaa ngay.
(I welcome all you brothers and sisters.)
I shall introduce me breifly... An Australian, Aboriginal of the Kamilaroi mob, basically I follow my own Aboriginal culture but in saying that I believe automatically catergorising myself as pagan, I follow my Dreaming which connects to the earth and caring for her. . My partner is not Aboriginal but follows a wiccan path. Her views have been introduced to my people and they have accepted her for her understanding of our culture and the similarity with her own views.
My friends, my belief and also that of koori people is that we are all part of the Dreaming, all people. There are so many cultures and religions and spiritual beliefs that many only count 'differences' and at times, whose 'religious' views are the 'right' or most correct. The settlement of Australia was an invasion to us, our peoples own culture was dismissed as fundementally inferior, and our people were denied their spirituality, language and culture, our families were broken up and moved away from their ' country' their tribal homes...something which imapcts greatly upon our people and beliefs.
having said this, we survive still, it is our beliefs that they tried to destroy that sustained us tho many have lost their connections .
Our belief is basically that ALL cultures "pray ' or believe in the same 'spiritual' force...what we call Dreamtime...no matter anyones view....for us we are ALL humans, so we were born with the same 'humanness' the same Dreaming, we all have the same 'spirituality'... our being is as humans....our problems with theologising and disputing faiths etc seems nonsensical to us....different people have different languages , cultures and so different ways of interpreting our world.
Still we ARE human....our totemic system of beliefs is just OUR way of seeing the universe and explaining it.....we still respect any other cultures beiliefs as it is THEIR way of seeing it in their country.
I like our explaination of the world....what I believe is that many have got away from our place in the scheme of things....we arent just humans, we are part of a world of many many different beings, different 'spirits'....and so we have no greater "divinity' than any being...we are all part of the landscape...even trees, rocks, rivers...all the flora and fauna....all part of our 'being"...they exist with us, here now in this life...so are entwined within our Dreaming...and we theirs....we cannot claim superiority as we dont possess it....we have technology waving its banner as proof of what ?...superior technology than any other being?
If this were so then we would respect our living landscape for what it is...our mother we call Gunimaa...it is from the dust of this world all existence we know of upon this world is born...even our air..water..food...everything!
200 years of modern technology has poisoned rivers, land, denuded resources...all this in 220 years since Europoean arrival in a landscape that existed harmoniuosly for thousands of millenia.
our being is a spiritual being, I doubt any can deny this...that great mystery we call 'Wayyruull....we are just human....we can only understand humaness.....the bible is that Jewish Dreaming....their view...their mobs culture...
the Tao is Chinese Dreaming....all mobs got their Dreaming.....all same....
That Jesus fella...he has proper Dreaming....his mob were Jewish...but he...Bhudda....all them fellas....they talking same Dreamings...just different lingo...different customs...still all human spirituality.
Me...I am a rainbird..thats my Dreaming...I am older than moses...my spirit...
I know my songlines...my 'story'...from the beginning...from before 'humanness'.....when no human beings lived, animals and other beings lived....but before us.
Our Dreaming and Dreamtime stories tell us our history....all our history...the mountains, stars, rivers, oceans ,birds animals....and humans....where is that different to any other human being?.....we just look 'our way'....and for us the land is us....that place we were given life, that place of our humanness, and everything, every other part of that 'country', that is us too....that is where our spirit first emerged to join the world of humans....and all them birds, animals, fish trees, everything....we are most definetly connected by our primordial humaness.......
just wonder why there is so much fuss about it......
we are who we are.....
my connection to the land is part of me, who I am...and the Kamilaroi are my family , all of them, we are all from kamilaroi land, that Dreaming there...
I think if you are human and 'understand' the concepts of sprituality...then yu recognise 'sprituality' in some form...and yu learn that from somewhere....
our Law...our Buurrunguu (Dreaming)..cant change, ever...it can however, evolve as all things, but that basic thing...is who we are...humans, and the story so far....hehe
we living OUR Dreaming right now, you just joined mine hey?....dont change me as this human...both got Dreaming.....but now my Mullowiil has painted this little bit into my Dreaming....my story
one day this one here...me...will die, this human here talking with you now, but I wont be gone....just back into Buurunguu, Dreamtime for next Dreaming hey?
we all hear that 'maybe your life flashes before your eyes when you die...
for me, us people, Kamilaroi one , that Dreaming...and all us koori mobs here this Blackfella island, Australia......... when we die...that shadow one Mullowiil...he comes and dances, he dances our corroborree, he dances me, my story, my life, flashing before my eyes....
looks that way looking in from outside I guess, hey...but for me,
inside....I dancin my entire life, all of it that my shadow painted for me on the land, painted right into the ground, all that Dreaming,...evrything that was me, this one here, koori G...Gurrimunyah, Garry...thats me..
Well I get to dance that Dreaming again, one more time, fast forward for human eyes....another lifetime for them spirit eyes,
written into the land forever for the spirit minded...
you can see all them other fellas, their Dreaming, its there, written into the country, their story, thier Dreaming
you see?....my human is dust...the mother earth, Gundimaa, she use that bit, mould it into something...bones first....after that...maybe a tree..or a bird, like rainbird hey, hahaha....or maybe a lizard or blacksnake...or a raindrop....my clan has Yuluwirri dreaming too..
Rainbow Dreaming...Yulluwirri we call that, rainbow, and Gapu, water we got that Dreaming too..the rain..
and I am the rainbird Dreaming there, thats me, that part of that story, from that country where my spirit breathed air ...all those tell that story, that Dreaming, where the mountains came from and the sky and stars and trees and dinosaurs and animals.....that story of that country there, from the very very beginning, that spot is me too, I am of that part of the landscape...connected as family to evrything there...that mountain, my uncle....those trees that are sisters...those birds that are brothers...everything there at that place, is me...I am of it...one day my mother, Gundimaa, she may Dream of me again and I will be again, some other one hey< another person... I will be a rainbird again while I wait....
thats who I am, thats where I will go...as spriit, and dance my corrobooree...into my Dreaming
I need nothing else...just that country...that place, where I always lived....since before adam...
you see?...it is the Dreaming, you see correctly the same elements within that Celtic Dreaming
we too have exactly this...an upper world...it contains the blueprints, yes, and so much more...
we have differnt names for our constellations, some are vast....some that others speak of are contained with others we speak of hear, each has its Dreaming, its story....our shamans, the Koradjii people, they know the stories for our people from our beginning
upper world, yes, and middle world, this one here where we speaking now
and under world, our Mullowiil....that where my shadow paints our Dreaming on the world...
and yes, we can move between worlds, not two that overlap, three that overlap and intertwine
all three worlds are there, withus, we exist "between" all those worlds, overlapping, that what makes us this 'human being' makes us visible...solid
When we dance corroborree, when anyone has that focus to sing 'their' Dreaming songline, we vibrate to that being. of ourselves harmoniously..we vibrate at that tone, that "balance'...of our three aspects, that why koori people have three names, one for each 'world'...and if we know the 'melody' that is us, we vibrate at the core of our being, and can 'step' into which aspect we like, step between any of those worlds at will, into our Dreamtime
it is only when we focus on one aspect, our physicality that the rest are dim and hard to see....
For me , my Dreaming is me, I see it everywhere, the visible being and the invisible....
my words are english words, a hard language to get right, Kamilaroi language is different.
What we say Dreaming....is an English word, we couldnt find any word with right meaning in english, so we chose Dreamtime and Dreaming...but it is not like dreaming...and yet it is...like thought is not really like speaking but it kind of is, awareness is an incredible thing, we teach our children to hear everything, a sense that speaks the languages of all beings, all animals and trees and birds and sky...Cetic sing their Dreaming just as we do, simultaneously..this Dreaming, it is always there...that Celtic Dreaming too...you Dreamtime, your Dreaming, just like spirit is like spirit and not really like 'human being' our senses are much more than we know, we are capable of so much more through our awareness...of all senses....utilised simultaneously, not focussing on one world...on ALL of them at once, overlapping...hehehe....yes, thats the Dreaming....just gotta look hey?...
Still, yes, that Celtic Dreaming, no less awesome than Aboriginal Dreamtime, or Chinese, or African Dreamtime...all there...all human being Dreaming....and more, all way back...
What we see in other cultures that seems so right, is because the language crosses those barriers and allows us to glimpse other Dreamings, our awareness...
Yes , three worlds, three aspects, three names...
Aboriginal culture is spiritual. I am spiritual. Inside of me is spirit and land, both given to me by the creator spirit. There is a piece of land in me and it keeps drawing me back like a magnet to the land from which I came, because the land too is spiritual. The land owns me. The only piece of land I can claim a spiritual connection with, a connection between the land, and me, is the piece of land under the tree where I was born. The spiritual link with that piece of land goes back to the ancestors in the Dreaming. This is both a personal and a sacred connection between me and the land, me and my ancestors. According to the Dreaming, animals, plants and the creatures of the land are our Aboriginal ancestors, brothers and sisters, mothers or fathers. They are called Maa or totems and are never to be harmed.
Long before Christianity came here; our people had faith in Biame as their God. They believed that the Creator would provide for them, that if they got sick he would save them, he would look after them and care for them. They had faith Biame would do all these things for them. The Creator spirit, in the form of the Rainbow spirit, shaped the land, its mountains, seas, rivers and trees. As the Creator, the Rainbow spirit gave life to all our ancestors, and all the creatures, the trees, plants, animals and birds, and to the landscape itself. Aboriginal Australians know this Creator spirit by many names, including Biame, Yiirmbal, Rainbow spirit, Biirul, Wandjina and Paayaamu.
The land is a living place made up of sky, clouds, rivers, trees, mountains, oceans, the wind, the sand, and the spirit has planted my own spirit there, in my own country. It is the land that is me and I belong to it. I rest in it, I come from there. When a person dies, the land, Gunimaa, as mother, opens her womb and takes the body, but the spirit is not in the land, only the shell, the body, stays in the land, the spirit goes to the Rainbow spirit. This is why the spirit is so sacred to man, because it belongs to Biame. Human beings are entrusted with the responsibility to cooperate with the Creator spirit, both to care for the land and to activate the life forces within the land.
The identities of Aboriginal peoples is determined by their deep connections to the land and are linked with their personal Dreaming sites, stories and totems. All these connections link people to the Creator spirit. Aboriginal people have a deep sense of responsibility for the welfare of the land entrusted to our care. We perform rites and actions that activate and sustain all life forms on the land. In a burn time ceremony, a renewing ceremony, the caretakers cooperate with the Creator spirit to enable the land to produce food. Many Aboriginal spirits have been broken by their shame and guilt at not being able to fulfill this sacred responsibility.
While the landscape features have their origins in Dreamtime creation stories, there are some places of special significance. Land generally has spiritual significance for Aborigines but because of the form and content of the stories relating to it, some land is more important than other land. Certain places are particularly important, usually because of their spiritual significance but sometimes because of their use as an important meeting place for ceremonies or as a burial ground, fertility site, conception site or initiation site. These places are special places often referred to as ‘sacred sites’, a generic term for different types of places or areas of land or sea. Many sacred sites are places where particularly important events occurred during the Dreamtime.
There are other places where special ceremonies are conducted to ensure the wellbeing of particular species or areas and other places of great danger, sometimes called ‘poison grounds’, where it is believed an inappropriate actions such as the killing of forbidden species, or the entrance of a stranger will cause sickness or death or storms. Each sacred site is a place where spiritual forces concentrate. Our elders are custodians of these sites and must tend to them according to sacred law. The routes taken by the creator beings in their Dreamtime journeys across the land and sea are also of continuing significance to Aboriginal peoples. They link many sacred sites together in a web of Dreaming tracks that criss- cross the country. Dreaming tracks can traverse the country for many hundreds of kilometers, from coast to coast and crossing through many ‘countries’. Peoples in the countries through which the tracks pass may share stories and songs that relate the creation events that occurred along the Dreaming tracks. For this reason, Dreaming tracks are sometimes called ‘songlines’.
Sacred sites and Dreaming tracks also define Aboriginal countries. Clan estates and larger tribal or language areas are largely defined by the location and significance of sacred sites and not so much by rigid external boundaries. Dreaming tracks and other special places and sacred sites can provide the focal points and often also the name of clan estates. The path of Dreaming tracks within or between these estates helped define their size and shape. Since sacred sites represent the cultural core of Aboriginal and Torres Straight islander countries it is not surprising that knowledge about these places has survived across much of Australia, even in places where other cultural knowledge may have been lost. Sacred sites have been documented in recent times in many remote and urban areas and continue to be of great significance to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people.
We believe the land of Australia is the land once allotted to Aboriginal Australians, not the European invaders. Each Aboriginal group has a sacred place in the land and a sacred song about its land. At this sacred place, we perform our ceremonies, sing our songs and dance our dances. These ceremonies are part or our responsibility as custodians of the land. The land owns you and you have to look after it. And that just goes on for generations. It's passed on. And it's in your heart. It's in every Aboriginal person's heart.
The Creator spirit is crying because the deep spiritual bonds with the land and its people have been broken. The land is crying because it is slowly dying without this bond of spiritual life. The people are crying because they long for a restoration of that deep spiritual bond with the Creator spirit and the land. Many aboriginal people do not realize that our suffering and pain are not caused by drink, drugs or city life, but is a result of our losing our spiritual connection with the land. When aboriginal people are taken from our spiritual homes, we also lose our spiritual contact with the Creator spirit. The suffering is spiritual, caused by the loss of our stories and songs, which link us with our story places, ancestors and the Creator spirit. The suffering is silent and deep, caused by the removal Aboriginal people from our home country where we are bound to the sacred place of our origin. The suffering is destructive, caused by the desecration of our sacred places and the removal or our ancient sacred stories once written into the landscape.Stealing our land means stealing our spirit, our souls, stealing what is most precious and dear to us, stealing our freedom and the spiritual strength within us. Stealing our land means taking our lives. Stealing our land is murder.
And the land cries out because the blood of our murdered people has not been appeased.The Creator spirit is crying because the scared places of the land have been desecrated, the land is crying because the people assigned by the Creator spirit to be its custodians have been torn from the land by force and stories and rites associated with these sacred places are being forgotten, the people are crying because they have lost the power to maintain their sacred places and are unable to fulfill their responsibilities as custodians of the land.Our ancestors gave us the law, the Aboriginal law of the land. That law was about how to tend the land, to sustain the life forces, to preserve the balance of life forces and to respect those life forces as eternal gifts from our Creator spirit. It hurts us now to find the land devoid of the rich life we once knew. When I drive through my country it hurts, it hurts to see the bulldozers removing the life our ancestors gave us. I can feel the pain of my ancestors when they see their country being raped and ripped apart. The land is crying because families no longer know where or how they are linked to the land and the people are crying because the families have been broken and torn by the evils of an alien social order imposed upon them by force.
Anytime you may wish any info or Aboriginal stories, Bush tuckers, herbs medicines, anything really , that is koori I be gld to share knoweledge
equally I love learning others view of all this , .......human beingness
Gundimaa guullabadhaay nginayayaana
May the Mother earth, Gundimaa, love and protect you
and all you love
G
- Offerings (Healing, Art, etc.):
- I am Gurrimunyah, I am the rainbird who sings Yuluwirrii the rainbow that follows the storms. I am a proud Kamilaroi Aboriginal man, I know my songlines, I live my Dreaming and for me the land is me, I am of it, that land, Gunimaa my mother. My connections to land are sacred, the core of Aboriginal spirituality.
- Goals (Personal, Planetary, etc.):
- My goals are to live this Dreaming, and to share Yuluwirri Dreaming, which has harmony as its core.
- Important Teachers:
- The land, my mother, all my spirit family, the birds, animals, fish, insects, trees rocks, mountains, plants...the airs...the waters....Everything is my teacher, my Dreaming.The Koradgii ( Aboriginal shamans) The Wirrinum ( healers)
- Favorite Books:
- Nature books, the natural world...
- Favorite Music:
- Indigenous music...ALL music
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I am presently in Canada after some weeks in the USA. An opportunity arose six weeks ago to allow me to travel here so I jumped at it.
I just had to tell you what I am seeing here is terrible. The degradation, disharmony and bloody-mindedness lays thick upon the ground, in the air and putrefies the waters. Everyday I have counted my blessings that I live in the great southern lands of Australia yet I give warning: we are not safe there either. There is much going on over here that we in Oz would do well to take heed of; there is disaster afoot and ignorance in abundance. There is no unity or recognition of commonality, prejudice is rife, money-hunger paramount for the majority. It is heart-breaking to see, even more so as this malaise spreads south.
We need a revolution - of global proportions... and we need it NOW.
I will return to Oz in a few weeks; When I get home I will contact you. From what I have observed here, I feel it is imperative we in Oz take affirmative actions to stop the rot heading rapidly our way.
In one spirit,
White Raven
It is I who must thank you - you gave a clear voice to something I was stumbling with as I have tried to translateto others what I have only recently come to comprehend the true and most profound meaning of - that is, the immense and incredibly important nature of the relationship indigenous people share with the land.
For most 'western societies', I fear the 'only' way for them to try to see how what you know, inherently is actually
missing from their reality ; and that what has replaced this relationship has been manufactured to manipulate and impose the will of a tiny minority upon the many. Very deliberate, very contrived. Very frightening.
Can you imagine for one minute, what the world might look like if the western societies suddenly 'remembered' their ancestors, their relationship to the birds and animals and the very many messages they carry,. If they just for a moment glimpsed what YOUR Dreaming explains so beautifully and so completely.... if just for a moment they could really see what it means to be 'connected' to the land....
Well, for one thing they simply couldnt carry on the way they do now, so utterly illogically, as you say.
But more than that, much, much more than that, they would fall inlove with life again, they would see this land with new born eyes and enormous respect, they would not 'fear' the stewardship which is the responsibility of those given guardianship of their part of the planet, they would understand the wisdom of your beautiful expressions and they would sob as I have, for all that they have done, in ignorance.
I fully acknowledge my own ignorance: for 37 years I lived in Australia, but I didnt know her as you do. I was never taught the true history of this country, And I failed to question, "why not?"
I spent five days living in the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra over the time of the mis-named 'Apology'. It changed my life. I will never see this land and its true people the same way again.
I fell inlove, in respect, in awe... and in spirit.
I see you, my brother. I stand with you, a peaceful warrior in the protection of your sacred Law, your Dreaming, your Gundimaa.
It will not be long now, my friend. Many more come daily to your side.
Your guidance, your wise words, will be what helps them understand what they must do.
The tragedy is that the white tribes have forgotten WHO they are; they have forgotten their original connection with the lands and animals - it was smashed and wiped out by invaders from what we now call europe.
And look what they have become as a consequence?
I often wonder what it was that happened to the whites that divided them - from each other and from the lands. I dont know who it was or if it was just one in particular but something happened!
It just doesnt make sense that the whites are SO aggressive and gung ho about decimating every place they set foot! It doesnt make sense..... but it is a reality....
I am deeply (in spiritual and physical terms) involved with your brothers and sisters endeavors towards full recognition of sovereignty here in Australia and world-wide. I am with the Elders and Clanmothers.
May I speak with you offline?
Please email me at whiteravenwaiting@yahoo.com.au
My blessings to you and your ancestors and gratitude I am allowed to walk this land with you.
White Raven