Aboriginal Australian spiritualities

Aboriginal spirituality is most closely linked to

• spirit

• land

• identity

• ownership

True or false:

All objects are living and share the same soul.

• True

• False

The term 'kanyini' is best describe as

• stewardship

• Indigenous hierarchy

• everyone is responsible for each other

• a Dreaming story

A key concept within Australian Aboriginal spirituality is

• reconciliation

• interconnectedness

• community

• revelation

What is the purpose of songlines?

• describe the activities of creator spirit beings

• ceremonial expression

• sacred objects

• spirit beings linked to totemic sites

What is cosmogony?

• interconnection between all beings

• anthropological spiritual connections

• a theory of story of the origin of the universe

• a belief in the visible and invisible

Which of the following is not a descriptor of Aboriginal spirituality?

• animistic

• totemic

• earthly

• intergenerational

Which Aboriginal belief(s) are most relevant to Rainbow Serpent?

• animism

• cosmology

• creation

• stewardship

Why is stewardship so important to Australian Aboriginal spirituality?

• Aboriginal mobs own the land

• Dreaming heroes are linked to space and place

• Aboriginal beliefs are associated with the land

• earthly unconditional love

Creation ancestors introduced the law of maintaining interdependence, taking responsibility for three groups. Which is not one of these groups?

• other people

• the land

• totems

• the ancestor spirits