What are some sacred places in Australia?

What are some sacred places in Australia?

8 Aboriginal sacred sites you must visit

• Mount Borradaile. Mount Borradaile.
• Ubirr, Nourlangie Rock and Injalak Hill.
• Windjana Gorge.
• The MacDonnell Ranges.
• Rainbow Valley.
• Cave Hill.
• Uluru.
• Aboriginal Outback Protocol.

What are sacred sites used for?

Sacred sites give meaning to the natural landscape. They anchor cultural values and spiritual and kin-based relationships in the land. Aboriginal people know that sacred sites can be dangerous places and can play an important part in their health and well-being.

What makes Aboriginal land sacred?

Hills, rocks, waterholes, trees, plains, lakes, billabongs and other natural features can be sacred sites. Sacred sites derive their status from their association with particular aspects of Aboriginal social and cultural tradition.

What large geographic feature is a sacred site for Australia Aboriginal?

Sometimes known as Ayers Rock, Uluru is without doubt the most sacred site in Aboriginal folklore.

How many sacred Aboriginal sites are there?

NSW: The Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) contains detailed information on over 93,000 recorded sites and over 13,500 archaeological and cultural heritage assessment reports.

What is the meaning of sacred sites in Australia?

Australian Sacred Sites. Aboriginal sacred sites are areas or places in Australia of significant Aboriginal Australian meaning within the animist context of the localised indigenous belief system.

What makes a site sacred to an Aboriginal person?

When these sites have an Aboriginal tradition associated with them as defined under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (1979), they are considered sacred sites for the purposes of the Sacred Sites Act. Aboriginal skeletal remains are considered Aboriginal archaeological places and objects under the Heritage Act.

Why is Uluru the most sacred place in Australia?

So sacred, in fact, that the government is banning visitors from climbing Uluru as of October next year. The hulking sandstone monolith has hosted Indigenous ceremonies for more than 10,000 years and the local Anangu community believe ancestral beings continue to live on at the site.

Where can you find indigenous artefacts in Australia?

While many Indigenous artefacts are found in the Australian bush, the South Australian Museum preserves plenty within their four walls in the middle of Adelaide.