Sentence examples for ancestral beings from inspiring English sources

These were considered ancestral beings of Aborigines, and are referred to in Aboriginal accounts of creation, Mr. Tacon said.

The Djanggawul song cycle recounts in 188 songs the journey of three ancestral beings, a Brother and Two Sisters, in the Millingimbi region.

Aboriginal history and identity was intimately connected to the land and to the ancestral beings that formed the natural world (e.g., rocks and waterholes).

Languages, kinship, ceremonies and caring for country have been passed on through the generations from the time of creation when important ancestral beings crossed the landscape and created the plants, animals, landforms and the people who live there today.

Uluru is the physical evidence of the feats performed by ancestral beings during this creation time.

Ancestral beings emerged from this void and travelled across the land, creating all living species and forms.

Locals say the grooves at the base of the rock were left behind by the ancestral being Kuniya in his journey to the Mutitjulu waterhole.

The word totem refers to a guardian or ancestral being, usually supernatural, that is revered and respected, but not always worshipped.

Their 2016 Fitzroy river declaration recognises the river as a living ancestral being with a right to life, and includes traditional owners' obligation to protect the river for current and future generations.

Some clans express their unity in terms of the possession of a common emblem, which may represent the ancestral being or common origin of the members and, as such, is often an object of reverence.

Others, especially older stories such as those from around Spencer Gulf in South Australia, are allegorical: an ancestral being angered by the misbehaviour of a clan punishes them by taking their country, gouging a groove with a magical kangaroo bone for the sea to swallow up the land.