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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. It has been
a long time since I sat down and actually filmed
the video. The last couple that you have seen over
the last like two weeks have been pre recorded because
I was on the other side of the world in Australia.
Many of my subscribers know this, but if you're near
to my channel, I booked this trip last year and
have been excited to go on it for a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Very long time.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Just got back a few nights ago and we're still,
you know, coming back to life here. I just get
talked to day this week was a little jet lag.
It's a sixteen hour time difference, so that was pretty crazy.
Like when we came back, we literally do time travel back.
I just really want to use this platform as much
as I can to teach people. If you didn't know,
I actually was in school to become an elementary teacher
for three years. I was about to start student teaching
(00:40):
and actually found I had more influence making YouTube videos.
I was a lot more passionate about, you know, filmmaking
and this kind of stuff I'm doing now, So I
changed my major to communications. But I still really find
so much value in teaching other people and influencing people.
And since I went to Australia and I learned a lot,
I thought it'd be a great opportunity to teach you
guys a little bit about some things that I learned there,
(01:01):
about the Australian Aboriginals and their amazing culture and history.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And just history that you know, isn't always so good.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I think we especially in America, I know, we are
super sheltered. Like what we learn as far as world
history is really really pathetic. And the more I travel,
the more I realized we were taught incorrectly, or we
just weren't taught about, you know, anything, like a lot
of things they just straight skip over into our school
and a lot of like public school systems in all countries,
kind of tweak history a little bit to favor.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Their own side.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So I thought today we would talk about the truth
about the Australian Aboriginal people, which are the indigenous people
of the land, the people who have been there the longest,
very similar to in America, you know, how we have
treated our Native Americans basically came to this land, booted
them out, killed them, raped them. I mean, it's really
really brutal history and most countries have pretty bad history
(01:53):
of you know, treating people that were originally on the
land pretty poorly.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean, it's happened all over the world.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I know not all of you are as interest in
history as I am, but I really hope you get
this video a chance. I'm telling you history is one
of the most fascinating things you can learn.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
About, especially ancient history.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I have a major fascination with all ancient civilizations, as
I think they're the closest that we might get to
having answers to why we're here and what the meaning
of life is. So I really take what you know
ancient cultures and civilizations have followed for years and years
and years.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I take it very seriously and I love to learn
about it.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Even though if I don't believe it, or you know,
I don't have any strong beliefs in really anything, I
still like to learn about it because I think if.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Anyone's close, it's probably them since it goes back so
very far.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I want to use this channel to teach people about
things that they may not know in history as much
as I can. So there will be more history videos
on this channel, so definitely give me a thumbs up.
If you like this video, but let's go ahead and
get started. So if you want to see more of
my trip in Australia, I do have a vlog channel.
If you didn't know, it's called Ken Daily. I will
leave a link in the description box. I'm slowly uploading
our vlogs. I have pretty much all of our Sydney
(02:57):
blogs out now, and next blogs will be Melbourne. And
then we moved to Cans and I'm sure many Americans
don't know how to pronounce words there, but it's it's
sort of like the Australian accent is kind of like
a very classy Boston accent. Sydney and Melbourne are both
really hustle bustle cities, beautiful cities, wonderful people. Every Australian
I met was just so so nice. I fell in
(03:18):
love with that country.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh my gosh. I think my favorite place that I.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Went was Cans, and that was because it was filled
with culture, ancient culture, and I got to be completely
immersed in nature.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Got to go to the Great Barrier.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Reef, which was really cool, and on my last day there,
I actually got to do a tour of some of Cans,
including the Danetree rainforest, which is a rainforest, which my
tour guide told me that the rainforest is about one
hundred and forty million years old. However, I looked it
up and it looks like it may even be about
one hundred and eighty million years old. However, I really
trust my tour guide because he was actually raised with
Aboriginal people as Australian as it gets, and definitely will
(03:52):
leave a link to the tour website if you guys
want you know, if you're ever there and you want
to do a tour, these people are awesome. They give
back to the Aboriginal people, they plant trees for them.
They're really really amazing tours. The whole thing I loved
learning about Aboriginals is that they are so in tune
with nature and earth. If you're gonna be out in
the rainforest, you would want an Aboriginal person.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
With you because they know the land.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They know the proper precautions and what is safe and
what's not, and they just know the land probably.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Better than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
In a recent DNA test, they have actually found that
it's possible Aboriginals first left Africa seventy five thousand years ago,
making them oldest continuous population ever. These people very well,
maybe the closest we get to the origins of life.
And when I was on the tour. At the end
of the tour, the guy, he was so nice. He
randomly was like, oh my god, the gas pedal's not
(04:41):
working on our van.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The accelerator stuck to the floor.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So I was like, Josh, you do not let us
leave unless that gas pedal is unstuck man, And so
he was just kidding. It was actually because he had
a surprise for us. He brought us onto the beach
and we had no idea. I started filming it. I
quickly turned it off. I'll show you what I do
have well, but I didn't know if.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It was like disrespectful to film.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Turns out they didn't mind at all, But I didn't
end up filming what I got to see and the
time that I spent with this Aboriginal man who was
so friendly to us, he taught us so much. He
got to play the digeridoo for us, which is actually
I hope.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I'm saying that right.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's an Aboriginal instrument that goes back to their beginnings
of their history. So it's termites that carve out the
inside of these eucalyptus trees, and then they stand them
down and they turn them into these instruments, and they
make these incredible noises that mimic animals. And Aboriginal people
(05:52):
truly see animals as like spirits and should be worshiped.
Land around us should be worshiped, and so they do
so with this instrument. So Aboriginals often referred to as Aborigines,
which they sometimes they don't like that they are indigenous people,
which means they were the original land owners. Many people,
you know, group Aborigines into like there's so many different varieties,
(06:13):
different you know, groups of them, different languages.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There's so many different.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Languages, so many varieties of their culture, and they're all
kind of grouped under one. So it's best to say
Aboriginals or Indigenous Australians. But anyway, on August twenty second
of seventeen seventy, Captain Cook discovered Australia. He was a
British explorer and he named it New South Wales. And
you know, just like most explorers back then, they didn't
(06:39):
really discover these places. They rediscovered them, but they were
already being lived on. They basically came in, stole the
land from them, graped women and children, killed so many people.
It's unbelievable how badly they were treated. They brought disease,
They you know, starved them, they took their supplies. They
basically just came in and stole Australia. Now, every kind
(07:00):
you know has a bad past, and with our Native
Americans here we still have issues. I mean, you look
at the Dakota Access Pipeline and all the protests going on.
We still do not have respect for the original landowners here.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's the same thing in Australia.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean, it's pretty much the same edywhere and it's
not the Australian the current Australian people's fault. But the
government still does not do I think enough to help
them and make up for the loss.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You do have a National Sorry Day, but it doesn't
really cut it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Man. The media has portrayed Aboriginal people so terribly. They
are often shown as drunks. Domestic violence issues, unemployment, homelessness,
they have a lot of issues in the community and
they do.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There's a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
A lot of it is because of the way that
they were treated in the past or their family members
being murdered. I mean, it's really crazy. Some of them
have serious issues because of all of the depression that
has gone on, and it has just kind of warped
the community so very much, and they're still angry, very rightfully. So. Now,
one thing that happened with the Aboriginals that is so
(08:03):
unbelievably sad is something called.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The Stolen Generation.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You may or may not have heard of it, but
so many Australians don't even know about this. It's crazy
as well as you know people around the world. It's
also known as the Stolen Children. There were tons of
Aboriginal children from all over the country that were taken
from their families. The main reasons for taking them was
child protection or I mean basically just a bunch of bs.
They stole so many of these children. It really has
(08:28):
angered the Aboriginal people, which I can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I would be furious too.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So many people became depressed if their children were taken.
And now the Aboriginal people only make up about three
percent of the population in Australia and are quickly being forgotten.
A lot of their languages are being lost, a lot
of their stories they try as much as they can,
because I think with the Aboriginals, it's all about keeping
the story alive, keeping the words of their ancestor and their.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
History alive through song, through story. But some of it
gets lost.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
They cut down their trees, they take their land, and
it's harder and harder for them to keep their culture
alive in this you know, fast paced world with such
different values. But I did get to learn a little
bit about their culture, and I wanted. I mean, there's
so much to learn. So if you really want to
learn more about original people, I would suggest you know,
doing your own research. But I do want to share
a couple of things, just because I thought, you know,
(09:20):
the least I can do for getting to visit their
amazing land, their beautiful rainforests, and spend time with one
on the beach, and he shared all this information with me.
I thought the least I can do with this YouTube
channel is share it with you guys. Dreaming is a
huge part of their culture, which I find really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Aboriginal people believe that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Humans, land, birds, fish, all creatures are all part of
one unchanging network.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Of relationships that they believe is connected.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
To the dream time and the dream time is kind
of like, and you know, I'm just doing my best
to explain this here, but it's basically what they believe
was before life as we know it existed, there was
the dream time. They believe in the physical world, the
sacred world, and the human world, and dream time goes back.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
To the beginning of time, the beginning of knowledge.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I definitely wouldn't be able to explain this to
you as well as an aboriginal person would, But basically,
they believed that supernatural beings that were able to be
in human form or animal form. Basically a rose out
of the ground and became and that's how life started.
It was all almost dreamed up and made themselves into
physical beings. And the main idea is that life always
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existed even before there was life here, it was brought
into human form physical form. They believed that the earth
was actually flat darkness, just like a silent nothingness, and
all true beings, you know, as our ancestors broke through
the crust and started life as we know it. They
talk about a lot of these things through story passed
down over the years. They have many, you know, rituals
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and sacred spaces where ancestors used to be caves that
they believe if you sleep in them, you're protected or
blessed by an ancestor as long as you respect them.
And they believe that every person essentially lives in dream
time forever.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It's similar to reincarnation in the fact that it's like your.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Soul is always existing somewhere in dream time. And I
really wish that the man I got to spend time
with was here today to explain some of this to you,
because he'd probably do so much better than I am.
But I just found it to be very interesting and
so many, you know, groups like this, older groups that
originally inhabited most of the world, they have very similar
beliefs when it comes to nature and mother Earth. It's
(11:30):
just like, I think we have really, really, over time,
really lost the true meaning of our life, and we
are filled with such small everyday things like money and
cars and career, And I just find it to be
very interesting that so many cultures, you know, ancient cultures,
are like this and they still carry those beliefs on
because the power of keeping something alive for so long,
(11:50):
I just think is fascinating and I respect them so much.
You know, they believe that we are on the planet.
The land owns us. We don't own the land. The
land owns us that we need to take care of it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And you know, with the US.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, it's really really
sad to see where we're at now. You know, over
thousands of years, how much our values have changed. When
I was doing my research, I came across something that
I thought you guys would find very interesting, and.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
That is the belief that some people have.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And I'm not sure how Aboriginals feel about this, but
there's a lot of people that think that maybe some
of these supernatural spirits were actually some type of extra
trestials from another planet that came here. I know that
sounds kind of crazy to some people, but there are
these cave drawings, and I hope I'm going to say
this right, but one gena very very sacred thing in
Aboriginal culture. In the Aboriginal mythology, they were actually cloud
(12:37):
and rain spirits who during the dream time painted their
images of humans but without mouths.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
On cave walls. It has been said that if they
had mouths, the rain would never cease. My name is
Julie Wangden. I come from Amini community.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So Onegan is Preeta, a protector is a god. Basically
he represents the Narian people, the Worlwada people and the
one a Man people. Only three tribes that can paint
the one you know stories from the old people and
them telling me what I can and can't paint the
one you know with and being from the Narinian tribe,
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I can only paint the one you know with fresh
water animals and fresh water stuff. Whereas the two tribes
they're part of the Salt Warwana people. But we're all connected.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I think it is very interesting that so many cultures
Egyptians have depicted very similar alien looking symbols.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
On their caves.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I feel like I'm on an endless quest to find
the meaning of life. I mean, how so many people are, right,
I mean, that's like the one thing when I die,
I'm like, I better be able to find out some
of this stuff, right. You know. I don't know the
truth about where we come from or what the meaning
of life is, obviously, but I do think that ancient
civilizations are the closest that we're going to get to
figuring it out. So I want to know what you
guys think what do you think of Aboriginal culture, indigenous
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cultures in general around the world and how they've been treated.
But the Australian Aboriginals have been through a lot bs man,
So I do have a couple of interesting articles more
about their culture, more about them, some ways that you
can help give back to them, as well as petitioned
to you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Know, push back a little bit against the government.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I hope you guys enjoyed this video learning a little
bit more about the Aboriginal culture.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Definitely do some more research on it.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I obviously didn't have time to jump into that much
and there's so so much to learn.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But that's it for me today.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Guys, be sure to like this video if you enjoyed it,
and I will see you next time.
Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. It has been
a long time since I sat down and actually filmed
the video. The last couple that you have seen over
the last like two weeks have been pre recorded because
I was on the other side of the world in Australia.
Many of my subscribers know this, but if you're near
to my channel, I booked this trip last year and
have been excited to go on it for a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Very long time.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Just got back a few nights ago and we're still,
you know, coming back to life here. I just get
talked to day this week was a little jet lag.
It's a sixteen hour time difference, so that was pretty crazy.
Like when we came back, we literally do time travel back.
I just really want to use this platform as much
as I can to teach people. If you didn't know,
I actually was in school to become an elementary teacher
for three years. I was about to start student teaching
(00:40):
and actually found I had more influence making YouTube videos.
I was a lot more passionate about, you know, filmmaking
and this kind of stuff I'm doing now, So I
changed my major to communications. But I still really find
so much value in teaching other people and influencing people.
And since I went to Australia and I learned a lot,
I thought it'd be a great opportunity to teach you
guys a little bit about some things that I learned there,
(01:01):
about the Australian Aboriginals and their amazing culture and history.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And just history that you know, isn't always so good.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I think we especially in America, I know, we are
super sheltered. Like what we learn as far as world
history is really really pathetic. And the more I travel,
the more I realized we were taught incorrectly, or we
just weren't taught about, you know, anything, like a lot
of things they just straight skip over into our school
and a lot of like public school systems in all countries,
kind of tweak history a little bit to favor.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Their own side.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So I thought today we would talk about the truth
about the Australian Aboriginal people, which are the indigenous people
of the land, the people who have been there the longest,
very similar to in America, you know, how we have
treated our Native Americans basically came to this land, booted
them out, killed them, raped them. I mean, it's really
really brutal history and most countries have pretty bad history
(01:53):
of you know, treating people that were originally on the
land pretty poorly.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean, it's happened all over the world.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I know not all of you are as interest in
history as I am, but I really hope you get
this video a chance. I'm telling you history is one
of the most fascinating things you can learn.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
About, especially ancient history.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I have a major fascination with all ancient civilizations, as
I think they're the closest that we might get to
having answers to why we're here and what the meaning
of life is. So I really take what you know
ancient cultures and civilizations have followed for years and years
and years.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I take it very seriously and I love to learn
about it.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Even though if I don't believe it, or you know,
I don't have any strong beliefs in really anything, I
still like to learn about it because I think if.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Anyone's close, it's probably them since it goes back so
very far.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I want to use this channel to teach people about
things that they may not know in history as much
as I can. So there will be more history videos
on this channel, so definitely give me a thumbs up.
If you like this video, but let's go ahead and
get started. So if you want to see more of
my trip in Australia, I do have a vlog channel.
If you didn't know, it's called Ken Daily. I will
leave a link in the description box. I'm slowly uploading
our vlogs. I have pretty much all of our Sydney
(02:57):
blogs out now, and next blogs will be Melbourne. And
then we moved to Cans and I'm sure many Americans
don't know how to pronounce words there, but it's it's
sort of like the Australian accent is kind of like
a very classy Boston accent. Sydney and Melbourne are both
really hustle bustle cities, beautiful cities, wonderful people. Every Australian
I met was just so so nice. I fell in
(03:18):
love with that country.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Oh my gosh. I think my favorite place that I.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Went was Cans, and that was because it was filled
with culture, ancient culture, and I got to be completely
immersed in nature.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Got to go to the Great Barrier.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Reef, which was really cool, and on my last day there,
I actually got to do a tour of some of Cans,
including the Danetree rainforest, which is a rainforest, which my
tour guide told me that the rainforest is about one
hundred and forty million years old. However, I looked it
up and it looks like it may even be about
one hundred and eighty million years old. However, I really
trust my tour guide because he was actually raised with
Aboriginal people as Australian as it gets, and definitely will
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leave a link to the tour website if you guys
want you know, if you're ever there and you want
to do a tour, these people are awesome. They give
back to the Aboriginal people, they plant trees for them.
They're really really amazing tours. The whole thing I loved
learning about Aboriginals is that they are so in tune
with nature and earth. If you're gonna be out in
the rainforest, you would want an Aboriginal person.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
With you because they know the land.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They know the proper precautions and what is safe and
what's not, and they just know the land probably.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Better than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
In a recent DNA test, they have actually found that
it's possible Aboriginals first left Africa seventy five thousand years ago,
making them oldest continuous population ever. These people very well,
maybe the closest we get to the origins of life.
And when I was on the tour. At the end
of the tour, the guy, he was so nice. He
randomly was like, oh my god, the gas pedal's not
(04:41):
working on our van.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The accelerator stuck to the floor.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So I was like, Josh, you do not let us
leave unless that gas pedal is unstuck man, And so
he was just kidding. It was actually because he had
a surprise for us. He brought us onto the beach
and we had no idea. I started filming it. I
quickly turned it off. I'll show you what I do
have well, but I didn't know if.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It was like disrespectful to film.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Turns out they didn't mind at all, But I didn't
end up filming what I got to see and the
time that I spent with this Aboriginal man who was
so friendly to us, he taught us so much. He
got to play the digeridoo for us, which is actually
I hope.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I'm saying that right.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's an Aboriginal instrument that goes back to their beginnings
of their history. So it's termites that carve out the
inside of these eucalyptus trees, and then they stand them
down and they turn them into these instruments, and they
make these incredible noises that mimic animals. And Aboriginal people
(05:52):
truly see animals as like spirits and should be worshiped.
Land around us should be worshiped, and so they do
so with this instrument. So Aboriginals often referred to as Aborigines,
which they sometimes they don't like that they are indigenous people,
which means they were the original land owners. Many people,
you know, group Aborigines into like there's so many different varieties,
(06:13):
different you know, groups of them, different languages.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There's so many different.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Languages, so many varieties of their culture, and they're all
kind of grouped under one. So it's best to say
Aboriginals or Indigenous Australians. But anyway, on August twenty second
of seventeen seventy, Captain Cook discovered Australia. He was a
British explorer and he named it New South Wales. And
you know, just like most explorers back then, they didn't
(06:39):
really discover these places. They rediscovered them, but they were
already being lived on. They basically came in, stole the
land from them, graped women and children, killed so many people.
It's unbelievable how badly they were treated. They brought disease,
They you know, starved them, they took their supplies. They
basically just came in and stole Australia. Now, every kind
(07:00):
you know has a bad past, and with our Native
Americans here we still have issues. I mean, you look
at the Dakota Access Pipeline and all the protests going on.
We still do not have respect for the original landowners here.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's the same thing in Australia.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean, it's pretty much the same edywhere and it's
not the Australian the current Australian people's fault. But the
government still does not do I think enough to help
them and make up for the loss.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You do have a National Sorry Day, but it doesn't
really cut it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Man. The media has portrayed Aboriginal people so terribly. They
are often shown as drunks. Domestic violence issues, unemployment, homelessness,
they have a lot of issues in the community and
they do.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There's a lot of problems.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
A lot of it is because of the way that
they were treated in the past or their family members
being murdered. I mean, it's really crazy. Some of them
have serious issues because of all of the depression that
has gone on, and it has just kind of warped
the community so very much, and they're still angry, very rightfully. So. Now,
one thing that happened with the Aboriginals that is so
(08:03):
unbelievably sad is something called.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The Stolen Generation.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You may or may not have heard of it, but
so many Australians don't even know about this. It's crazy
as well as you know people around the world. It's
also known as the Stolen Children. There were tons of
Aboriginal children from all over the country that were taken
from their families. The main reasons for taking them was
child protection or I mean basically just a bunch of bs.
They stole so many of these children. It really has
(08:28):
angered the Aboriginal people, which I can't even imagine.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I would be furious too.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So many people became depressed if their children were taken.
And now the Aboriginal people only make up about three
percent of the population in Australia and are quickly being forgotten.
A lot of their languages are being lost, a lot
of their stories they try as much as they can,
because I think with the Aboriginals, it's all about keeping
the story alive, keeping the words of their ancestor and their.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
History alive through song, through story. But some of it
gets lost.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
They cut down their trees, they take their land, and
it's harder and harder for them to keep their culture
alive in this you know, fast paced world with such
different values. But I did get to learn a little
bit about their culture, and I wanted. I mean, there's
so much to learn. So if you really want to
learn more about original people, I would suggest you know,
doing your own research. But I do want to share
a couple of things, just because I thought, you know,
(09:20):
the least I can do for getting to visit their
amazing land, their beautiful rainforests, and spend time with one
on the beach, and he shared all this information with me.
I thought the least I can do with this YouTube
channel is share it with you guys. Dreaming is a
huge part of their culture, which I find really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Aboriginal people believe that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Humans, land, birds, fish, all creatures are all part of
one unchanging network.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Of relationships that they believe is connected.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
To the dream time and the dream time is kind
of like, and you know, I'm just doing my best
to explain this here, but it's basically what they believe
was before life as we know it existed, there was
the dream time. They believe in the physical world, the
sacred world, and the human world, and dream time goes back.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
To the beginning of time, the beginning of knowledge.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And I definitely wouldn't be able to explain this to
you as well as an aboriginal person would, But basically,
they believed that supernatural beings that were able to be
in human form or animal form. Basically a rose out
of the ground and became and that's how life started.
It was all almost dreamed up and made themselves into
physical beings. And the main idea is that life always
(10:29):
existed even before there was life here, it was brought
into human form physical form. They believed that the earth
was actually flat darkness, just like a silent nothingness, and
all true beings, you know, as our ancestors broke through
the crust and started life as we know it. They
talk about a lot of these things through story passed
down over the years. They have many, you know, rituals
(10:51):
and sacred spaces where ancestors used to be caves that
they believe if you sleep in them, you're protected or
blessed by an ancestor as long as you respect them.
And they believe that every person essentially lives in dream
time forever.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It's similar to reincarnation in the fact that it's like your.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Soul is always existing somewhere in dream time. And I
really wish that the man I got to spend time
with was here today to explain some of this to you,
because he'd probably do so much better than I am.
But I just found it to be very interesting and
so many, you know, groups like this, older groups that
originally inhabited most of the world, they have very similar
beliefs when it comes to nature and mother Earth. It's
(11:30):
just like, I think we have really, really, over time,
really lost the true meaning of our life, and we
are filled with such small everyday things like money and
cars and career, And I just find it to be
very interesting that so many cultures, you know, ancient cultures,
are like this and they still carry those beliefs on
because the power of keeping something alive for so long,
(11:50):
I just think is fascinating and I respect them so much.
You know, they believe that we are on the planet.
The land owns us. We don't own the land. The
land owns us that we need to take care of it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And you know, with the US.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, it's really really
sad to see where we're at now. You know, over
thousands of years, how much our values have changed. When
I was doing my research, I came across something that
I thought you guys would find very interesting, and.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
That is the belief that some people have.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And I'm not sure how Aboriginals feel about this, but
there's a lot of people that think that maybe some
of these supernatural spirits were actually some type of extra
trestials from another planet that came here. I know that
sounds kind of crazy to some people, but there are
these cave drawings, and I hope I'm going to say
this right, but one gena very very sacred thing in
Aboriginal culture. In the Aboriginal mythology, they were actually cloud
(12:37):
and rain spirits who during the dream time painted their
images of humans but without mouths.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
On cave walls. It has been said that if they
had mouths, the rain would never cease. My name is
Julie Wangden. I come from Amini community.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So Onegan is Preeta, a protector is a god. Basically
he represents the Narian people, the Worlwada people and the
one a Man people. Only three tribes that can paint
the one you know stories from the old people and
them telling me what I can and can't paint the
one you know with and being from the Narinian tribe,
(13:11):
I can only paint the one you know with fresh
water animals and fresh water stuff. Whereas the two tribes
they're part of the Salt Warwana people. But we're all connected.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I think it is very interesting that so many cultures
Egyptians have depicted very similar alien looking symbols.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
On their caves.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I feel like I'm on an endless quest to find
the meaning of life. I mean, how so many people are, right,
I mean, that's like the one thing when I die,
I'm like, I better be able to find out some
of this stuff, right. You know. I don't know the
truth about where we come from or what the meaning
of life is, obviously, but I do think that ancient
civilizations are the closest that we're going to get to
figuring it out. So I want to know what you
guys think what do you think of Aboriginal culture, indigenous
(13:53):
cultures in general around the world and how they've been treated.
But the Australian Aboriginals have been through a lot bs man,
So I do have a couple of interesting articles more
about their culture, more about them, some ways that you
can help give back to them, as well as petitioned
to you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Know, push back a little bit against the government.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I hope you guys enjoyed this video learning a little
bit more about the Aboriginal culture.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Definitely do some more research on it.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I obviously didn't have time to jump into that much
and there's so so much to learn.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
But that's it for me today.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Guys, be sure to like this video if you enjoyed it,
and I will see you next time.
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