Subconscious Realms ep.215 Indigenous Aboriginal Spirits PT1 (Guest Show)

Welcome back everyone! Today I have a BONUS episode for you all. Here is my appearance over at "Subconscious Realms" with General Lee. This is my first time unpacking my theories surrounding Indigenous Australian history, folklore and spiritual beliefs.  There are many points the intersect and I believe form a much larger picture that I haven't seen anyone else approach as yet.  Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies. Aboriginal spirituality includes the Dreamtime (the Dreaming), songlines, and Aboriginal oral literature. Aboriginal spirituality often conveys descriptions of each group's local cultural landscape, adding meaning to the whole country's topography from oral history told by ancestors from some of the earliest recorded history. Most of these spiritualities belong to specific groups, but some span the whole continent in one form or another. The stories enshrined in Aboriginal mythology variously "tell significant truths within each Aboriginal group's local landscape. They effectively layer the whole of the Australian continent's topography with cultural nuance and deeper meaning, and empower selected audiences with the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of Australian Aboriginal ancestors back to time immemorial". There are 900 distinct Aboriginal groups across Australia, each distinguished by unique names usually identifying particular languages, dialects, or distinctive speech mannerisms. Each language was used for original myths, from which the distinctive words and names of individual myths derive. With so many distinct Aboriginal groups, languages, beliefs and practices, scholars cannot attempt to characterise, under a single heading, the full range and diversity of all myths being variously and continuously told, developed, elaborated, performed, and experienced by group members across the entire continent. Attempts to represent the different groupings in maps have varied widely. This episode lays out my own personal beliefs and speculation to this very broad and dynamic topic. I do not intend to upset or disrespect First Nations peoples in anyway.    You can find General Lees work over at the following link below.  https://open.spotify.com/show/2Su5DwRSQ5YCuKdV0PYLCT?si=m3eIXPekQLipQ-k-bVpw8Q   So sit back, grab a coffee, put your feet up, relax and enjoy this BONUS episode.