There are
many different myths that speak
of the origins and consequences of death across Aboriginal Australia. Even some of the earliest accounts of classical Aboriginal religion probably unknowingly describes the
mythologies that had
incorporated Christian
themes.
Aboriginals believe in multiple human souls, which are divided into two categories: one is comparable to a western ego-self-created, which accompanies the body and is the identity of the person, and one that comes from "The Dreaming" and / or God. The latter arises from ancestral totem. At death, the two types of soul have different trajectories and fates
The egoic soul initially becomes a dangerous ghost that remains near the deceased's body and property. It eventually passes into nonexistence, either by dissolution or by travel to a distant place of no consequence for the living. Its absence is often marked by destruction or abandonment of the deceased's property and a long-term ban on the use of the deceased person's name by the living. Ancestral souls, however, are eternal. They return to the environment and to the sites and ritual paraphernalia associated with specific totemic beings and/or with God.
Aboriginals believe in multiple human souls, which are divided into two categories: one is comparable to a western ego-self-created, which accompanies the body and is the identity of the person, and one that comes from "The Dreaming" and / or God. The latter arises from ancestral totem. At death, the two types of soul have different trajectories and fates
The egoic soul initially becomes a dangerous ghost that remains near the deceased's body and property. It eventually passes into nonexistence, either by dissolution or by travel to a distant place of no consequence for the living. Its absence is often marked by destruction or abandonment of the deceased's property and a long-term ban on the use of the deceased person's name by the living. Ancestral souls, however, are eternal. They return to the environment and to the sites and ritual paraphernalia associated with specific totemic beings and/or with God.
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