| GLOSSARY OF ABORIGINAL TERMS
USED IN MASTERS OF REALITY |
Churinga: concentrated form of
Kurunba. At Uluru there are twenty-five known churinga's relating to
the events associated with the five myths. These symbols were handed
down from the Sky Heroes and only brought out of their hiding place
at the Dreaming Site to perform certain rites.
Dream Journey: The basis of which
is ritual co-operation with nature. The outward journey - inspired by
the family. The inward journey - undertaken alone.
Dreaming Site: a Hot Spot or Ley-line
crossing where the Dream Journey takes place.
Hot Spot: 'Hole of Life' Ley crossing
- filled with the import ofworld creation.
Kurunba: that is, the power that
gives a land mark its inherent form over and above that of its mere
physical appearance.
Medigar: 'Person of Magic' - the
live embodiment of Otherworldly experience.
Miwi: - Power in the in the pit
of the stomach i.e. Kundalini.
Sky Heroes: not only created the
landmarks but divinely constructed the metaphysical landscape that flows
beneath it. This inner landscape is more important than the actual land.
The Celtic name for the Sky
Heroes was the Old Ones. The Sumerians called the Sky Heroes the Lofty
Ones - the Nefilim.
Tjukuba: 'the Dreaming'. Before
this, the primordial event, the landscape conformed to the idea of chaos
as it was literally a formless void. Only upon the mysterious appearance
of the Sky Heroes did the landscape take on a truly cosmic significance.
At the conclusion of this period the Sky Heroes disappeared, leaving
in their place their personalised signatures in the guise of topographic
landmarks, contour variations, trees, animals, man - all manifestation
of life on earth. This period of shaping the earth was the Dreamtime.
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