Mythology aboriginal

The indigenous of Australia can be broken up according to 400 linguistic groups different, each one of them having its own culture. For this reason, it would be erroneous to think that an attribute is representative a priori of the culture aboriginal as a whole. However, almost all the beliefs seem to show that it is about a Religion polytheist and animist. He would be incorrect to refer to the mythological beings as a God X, in his European design. It is more adapted to more regard them as Creative Spirits, of the Heroes of the culture or like ancestral Indigenous Spirits.

Despite everything, there exist many similarities between the various groups:

the cultures aboriginals are based around Nature. A spiritual relation binds the human beings, the plants, the animals, the stars, and the sites crowned. Good number of their mythological hero are typical animals of Australia, such as for example the Rainbow snake.
the human ones are more associated with the ground, and precise sites. Each aboriginal being spiritually related to the crowned sites which mark the area associated with its ancestors, it is an obligation for him to help to preserve these sites, by achieving the ritual necessary ones and by singing the songs telling the actions of the ancestors. By achieving that, the order created by its ancestors is maintained.
Another similarity is the concept of " Time of the dream ". One often refers to it as a time when the world was created, but described makes of them the process by which it came at the day. Another explanation is given by the anthropologist, max Charlesworth, which regards the Temps of the dream as the capacity “to see the eternal vision”. However, the use of the expression Temps of the dream from now on is discouraged because it renvoit implicitly at a completed time, whereas many aboriginals consider that it is not finished. He prefers to him the term of Rêve . In the dream, there is no clear distinction between the men and the animals, and some spirits are able to at will take an human form or animal.
the ways of the dream describe the course borrowed by the Ancestral Spirits during the dream. Whereas they went on this way, they gave life to the rocks, the plants and the animals by the song. These ways are crowned, and there exist songs and ceremonies which describe their courses. Precise places along the course (for example Ubirr) are still more crowned and sometimes even dangerous.

There exist many different tribes aboriginals. If necessary, the articles below will refer to a particular tribe.

See too

Alchera - Myth
Alcheringa - Term used by certain aboriginals to indicate the Time of the dream
Altjira - celestial Spirit of the Arrernte
Anjea - female Spirit of the fertility
Bagadjimbiri - Two creative brothers and spirits
Bahloo - Spirit of the moon
Baiame - creative Spirit several linguistic groups of the south-east of Australia, such as the Kamilaroi
Bamapana - Hero with the treacherous spirit and which causes the discord (at the Murngin)
Banaitja - Spirit creator
Barnumbir - Spirit of the people Yolngu
Beralku - Island of died at the Yolngu
Bobbi-bobbi - giant Snake which live in the sky, following the example rainbow snake
Brolga
Bunbulama - Spirit of the rain
Bunjil - creative Spirit of the linguistic groups of the Victoria, such as the Kulin, and sometimes identified with Baiame
Bunyip - mythical Creature grinding in the Billabongs in the south-east of Australia
Daramulum - creative Spirit, wire or brother of Baiame in the south-east of Australia. Spirit of the sky, owner of the shamans, and lunar deity (at the Wiradjuri and the Kamilaroi)
Dhakhan - ancestral Spirit of the Kabi
Didgeridoo (origin of)
Dilga - Spirit of the fertility and the growth
Djanggawul - In the territories of north, phratry made up of a man and two women which created the Australian landscape and recovered it vegetations
Djunkgao - Group of sisters associated with the floods and current sailors
Temps with the dream - Central theme and indigenous unifier with the culture
Eingana - creative Spirit and mother of all water and all the animals and human
Erathipa - Rock which resembles an expectant mother
Galeru - Rainbow snake which swallowed the Djanggawul
Gidja - lunar Spirit and creator of the woman
Gnowee - solar Spirit which lived on Earth before the existence of the sun
Inapertwa - Creatures with which the Numakulla created the life on Earth (at the Arrernte)
I' wai - Hero of the culture of the Koko Y' ao
Jar' Edo Wens - Spirit of terrestrial knowledge and the physical power
Julana - perverse Spirit which surprised women after having dug a burrow under sand
Julunggul - Rainbow snake and spirit of the fertility
Kalseru
Karora - creative Spirit
Kidili - Old the man-moon which tried Viol er some of the first women on Earth (Mandjindja)
Kondole - malicious Man and coarse which was transformed into Baleine
Kunapipi - maternal Spirit and patron saint of several heroes
Kutjara
Makara - Seven sisters who became thereafter the Pléiades
Mamaragan - Spirit of the flashes which speaks by using the thunder
Mamu
Mangar-kunjer-kunja - saurien Spirit which created the man
Mar' rallang - Name about two binoculars
Mimi - Small being of the area of Arnhem which lives in the cracks of the rocks
Minawara - Ancestors about the Nambutji
Mokoi - malignant Spirit which killed out of the Sorciers making use of black Magie
Mura-mura - Another word for Temps of the dream
Nargun - female Monster which kidnaps the children
Ngariman - Man-cat which killed the Bagadjimbiri
Nogomain - Spirit which makes gift of child-spirits to parents mortals
Numakulla - creative Spirit, large ancestor of the Inapertwa
Puckowe - alive large-maternal Spirit in the skies
Pundjel - creative Spirit which invented the religious rites
Rainbow snake - creative Spirit which controls water and lives the permanent water points
Tjilpa - Ancestor of the Chat S
Tjinimin - Ancestor of the people Australian
Ulanji - Ancestor of the Binbinga to the aspect of snake
Ungud - Spirit-snake which is sometimes man and sometimes woman
Wagyl - Creature with the pace of snake which is at the origin of the rivers in the south-west of the Western Australia
Wahwee
Wala - creative female Spirit of the Sun in the Territoire of North
Waramurungundi - First woman (at the Gunwinggu)
Wati-kutjara - Man lizard
Wawalag - Two sisters, girls of Djanggawul
Wollunqua - Spirit-snake of the rain and the fertility
Wondjina - Spirits of the clouds and the rain
Wuluwaid - Spirits of the rain
Wuragag - First man (at the Gunwinggu)
Wuriupranili - solar female Spirit which carries a torch as a sun
Wurrunna - cultural Hero
Yara-my-yha-who - Small vampiric man or monster humanoïde
Yowie - Stupid giantess resembling a crossing between a lizard and an ant
Yhi - female Spirit of the light and creation, and solar divinity
Yohrmum
Yurlungur

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