The aborigine's Dreamtime also is a story about creation. In all the societies of the world
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Does Modern Religion correspond to Dreamtime? In many ways modern religion does correspond with Dreamtime. The first way that it corresponds is that Dreamtime encompasses the past, present and the future. This is also true with a lot of religions that we see today in modern society. They all have a record of the past. For example Muslim culture has the Koran in which Mohammed is seen as the final prophet. Christianity also has a record called the Bible. Both of these religions also have guidelines on how to live life day to day. They might be in the form of a story or they might be in the form of rules. They also have the future and what is to come.
The aborigine's Dreamtime also is a story about creation. In all the societies of the world, the religion almost always has a creation story. In Dreamtime the creator of the entire universe is the Great Rainbow Serpent, which is believed to be a woman. In their story the Great Rainbow Serpent comes to earth and takes a husband. They had offspring like humans. The first people who arrived in Australia were thought to be ancestral beings, along with giant kangaroos, crocodiles and lizards. This is also a record of the Aboriginal past. To the aborigines, it is sort of like their fossil record or their Bible. There are also hieroglyphs found on the walls like a record, but the aborigines seem to have preferred to pass on their history through song and dance. This seems to be the first way that probably religions first kept the history of their people. Aside from them being descendants of animals, many religions still believe that they descended from ancestral beings. The aborigines believed that they descended from supernatural beings and animals just as Christians believe that we directly descended from Adam and Eve.
Magdalena
M-W 11:30-12:45 PM
Reaction Paper 1
Does Modern Religion correspond to Dreamtime? In many ways modern religion does correspond with Dreamtime. The first way that it corresponds is that Dreamtime encompasses the past, present and the future. This is also true with a lot of religions that we see today in modern society. They all have a record of the past. For example Muslim culture has the Koran in which Mohammed is seen as the final prophet. Christianity also has a record called the Bible. Both of these religions also have guidelines on how to live life day to day. They might be in the form of a story or they might be in the form of rules. They also have the future and what is to come.
The aborigine's Dreamtime also is a story about creation. In all the societies of the world, the religion almost always has a creation story. In Dreamtime the creator of the entire universe is the Great Rainbow Serpent, which is believed to be a woman. In their story the Great Rainbow Serpent comes to earth and takes a husband. They had offspring like humans. The first people who arrived in Australia were thought to be ancestral beings, along with giant kangaroos, crocodiles and lizards. This is also a record of the Aboriginal past. To the aborigines, it is sort of like their fossil record or their Bible. There are also hieroglyphs found on the walls like a record, but the aborigines seem to have preferred to pass on their history through song and dance. This seems to be the first way that probably religions first kept the history of their people. Aside from them being descendants of animals, many religions still believe that they descended from ancestral beings. The aborigines believed that they descended from supernatural beings and animals just as Christians believe that we directly descended from Adam and Eve.
