Why Uluru is important to the aboriginal people?
To the Pitjandjara tribe of central Australia, Uluru is a sacred place. They believed that the Kunia people(who had the carpet snake totem) lived there and also transformed into rocks. Their features can bee seen on Uluru today. Two cracks in the rock represent places where a warrior slashed the leg of a member of a raiding party: the longer cut when his knife was sharp and the shorter one after the tip of the knife had broken off. Caves in the rock are the open mouths of dead warriors who died shouting their enemies.
Another cave is the open mouth of a grieving mother who saw her son killed. She avenged her son's death by striking a warrior with her digging stick. His cracked skull and nose can be seen on the rock along with four holes representing his eyes and nasal passages. Water stains represent his blood.
Uluru is also a sacred site to because of a birthing-cave in the rock. It is a place where women went in childbirth in the belief that they would have a painless delivery there.
There are more than 200,00 tourists climb Uluru every year so I personally think it would be disrespectful to the Aboriginals.
To the Pitjandjara tribe of central Australia, Uluru is a sacred place. They believed that the Kunia people(who had the carpet snake totem) lived there and also transformed into rocks. Their features can bee seen on Uluru today. Two cracks in the rock represent places where a warrior slashed the leg of a member of a raiding party: the longer cut when his knife was sharp and the shorter one after the tip of the knife had broken off. Caves in the rock are the open mouths of dead warriors who died shouting their enemies.
Another cave is the open mouth of a grieving mother who saw her son killed. She avenged her son's death by striking a warrior with her digging stick. His cracked skull and nose can be seen on the rock along with four holes representing his eyes and nasal passages. Water stains represent his blood.
Uluru is also a sacred site to because of a birthing-cave in the rock. It is a place where women went in childbirth in the belief that they would have a painless delivery there.
There are more than 200,00 tourists climb Uluru every year so I personally think it would be disrespectful to the Aboriginals.
The Aboriginals
- These are the Aboriginals, also known as Pitjandjara tribe.
- As you can see from these pictures, the Aborigines have worn little clothing because of their beliefs in the sacredness of Australia's natural resources.
- It is a common tradition to for Aborigines to cover themselves with animal fat or clay.
- They also favour body decoration, adorning themselves with strings and jewelries or painting their bodies with paints made from charcoal and an orange clay pigment, known as ocher.
- The Aboriginals are people whose ancestors are indigenous to the Australian continent, that is to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania.
- They have came to Australia 40,000 years ago.