Australian Aboriginal spirituality

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Indigenous belief system cosmology religious worldview spiritual tradition

Australian Aboriginal spirituality is the complex, land-based belief system of Indigenous Australians that centers on the Dreaming, ancestral beings, and the deep interconnectedness of people, Country, and law.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Aboriginal Dreaming narratives	1
Yolngu cosmology	1

Statements (91)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous belief system ⓘ cosmology ⓘ religious worldview ⓘ spiritual tradition ⓘ
associatedWithRegion	Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Australian coasts ⓘ Australian deserts ⓘ Australian temperate south NERFINISHED ⓘ Australian tropical north ⓘ
centralBelief	continuity between past, present, and future ⓘ interconnectedness of people, land, and ancestors ⓘ law given by ancestral beings ⓘ obligations to care for Country ⓘ ongoing presence of ancestral beings ⓘ sacredness of Country ⓘ spiritual dimension of everyday life ⓘ
continuesIn	contemporary Aboriginal communities ⓘ
emphasizes	maintenance of sacred sites ⓘ responsibility to ancestors ⓘ responsibility to future generations ⓘ ritual performance to sustain the world ⓘ
hasCoreConcept	Country ⓘ Dreaming ⓘ Dreamtime narratives NERFINISHED ⓘ Law ⓘ ancestral beings ⓘ ancestral land rights ⓘ initiation ⓘ kinship ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ relational ontology ⓘ ritual ⓘ sacred sites ⓘ songlines ⓘ spiritual ecology ⓘ storytelling ⓘ totemism ⓘ
hasHistoricalDepth	tens of thousands of years ⓘ
hasKeyTerm	Altyerre NERFINISHED ⓘ Country ⓘ Dreaming ⓘ Dreamtime NERFINISHED ⓘ Law ⓘ Tjukurpa NERFINISHED ⓘ moiety ⓘ skin names ⓘ songlines ⓘ totem ⓘ
includesPractice	corroborees ⓘ funerary rites ⓘ healing rituals ⓘ increase ceremonies ⓘ initiation ceremonies ⓘ secret-sacred rituals ⓘ smoking ceremonies ⓘ
influences	Aboriginal art NERFINISHED ⓘ Aboriginal customary law ⓘ Aboriginal dance ⓘ Aboriginal identity ⓘ Aboriginal kinship systems ⓘ Aboriginal land management practices ⓘ Aboriginal music ⓘ Aboriginal social organization ⓘ
interactsWith	Australian legal system NERFINISHED ⓘ Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ land rights movements ⓘ
practicedBy	Aboriginal Australians NERFINISHED ⓘ Torres Strait Islander people NERFINISHED ⓘ
recognizes	ancestral tracks ⓘ clan estates ⓘ gendered ritual knowledge ⓘ ritual specialists ⓘ sacred landscapes ⓘ
relatedTo	Australian Aboriginal mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ Indigenous Australian religions ⓘ animism ⓘ shamanic practices ⓘ
transmittedBy	ceremony ⓘ dance ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ song ⓘ storytelling ⓘ visual art ⓘ
variesBy	clan ⓘ language group ⓘ region ⓘ
viewsLandAs	kin ⓘ sentient ⓘ source of law ⓘ
viewsTimeAs	coexistence of Dreaming and present ⓘ non-linear ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Palawa people → hasReligion → Australian Aboriginal spirituality ⓘ

Kunwinjku → hasReligionOrBeliefSystem → Australian Aboriginal spirituality ⓘ

George Tjungurrayi → influencedBy → Australian Aboriginal spirituality ⓘ

this entity surface form: Aboriginal Dreaming narratives

Pitjantjatjara people → religion → Australian Aboriginal spirituality ⓘ

Wurundjeri people → religion → Australian Aboriginal spirituality ⓘ

Yolngu people → traditionalReligion → Australian Aboriginal spirituality ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yolngu cosmology