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Aboriginal Australia

The world of the Aboriginal "'Age of the Dream"
According to Aboriginal mythology, the primordial mythical beings retreated into a world invisible to men leaving signs of their existence in certain magic places that still radiate their energy healing and are marked with mysterious rock paintings that represent them at the center of the ancient territories Hunting of Arnhem Land, on the Flinders Ranges and caves of the monolith of "Uluru" Ayers Rock.Tutta to Australia is dotted with many other sacred places and magical decorated with paintings and carvings representing "wongina" creatures ...

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Body art and Oceania

Among the Australian aborigines the tribe is bound by the same original clans and totems, governed by immutable laws of ancestral spirits assisted by tjurungas antenati.Le ceremonies are accompanied by the corroboree dances that can be male or female, with the protagonists of the painted body mimics the ancient mythological stories of the sound unreal paintings digieridu blown pipes and stones struck with force by women along with drums, raising a chorus of ancient litanies directed by the elders.

In New Caledonia, indigenous kanachi have revived the ancient traditions and ...