Aboriginal history
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The australian aborigines have a strong and rich tradition of oral history. Their beliefs about their origins have been handed down over centuries in the form of stories about their 'dreamtime". They believed that...
A long time ago, in the Dreamtime, before there were men or animals, plants or any other thing, there was the Rainbow Serpent which was the mother of us all.
She moved around in the darkness before there was the sun and the moon in the sky, and created mountain ranges, and deep channels where her great body wound its way.
Where she thrashed her tail great rifts appeared, and there were great hollows where her body had lain sleeping.
After a time, the Rainbow Serpent decided that it was time to create life for the world. So at the place called Uluru (Ayers Rock), she gave birth.
She gave birth to the Frog tribe and the Kingfisher tribe...