Foxy are you talking about their current development using modern products or their rock art and ancient bark art etc?

Foxy: You could learn about Aboriginal art, Indigenous music of Australia, Aboriginal story telling traditions, and so much more.

Aboriginal Music. Please elaborate? Apart from Clickity, Clickly , Click & Ooooh Waaaarrrrr Carrrrk, Carrrrk, Carrrrk, Woo..oop! Stomp, Stomp, Stomp, What other Genera are there?

As for Story telling. Yes, I agree, but there are some nice Children's books I've read. I've taken them all down to the Aboriginal Centre here where I live. They said, "These aren't our Stories." So I brought them back home with me. Yes, they were from the Cape.

Have you got anything better than that. So far you have failed to convince me that Customs & Traditions from 60000 years ago will be of any benefit to me.

Josephus,

That's the beauty of it all - Aboriginal art
techniques vary from artist to artist.
They are not one homogenous group. They are
made up of diverse cultural groups and
clans. It's a fascinating area of study.

Jayb,

Different tribes use various instruments in making
music which include boomerangs, clubs, hollow logs,
seed rattles, didgeridoos, decorated drums (made
from hollow logs and covered with reptile skin).
There's also good old fashioned singing, hand-clapping,
lap and thigh slapping, then there's the bellroarer,
and of course the gum leaf.

People have always made music no matter who they are.
But it's interesting to broaden one's outlook and
learn more about the ways in which they did it.
Especially about our Indigenous people. Of course
as I've stated previously - one has to be willing and
able to have an open mind to do just that. A closed
mind is just like a cloased book - just a piece of
wood. Ay!

One day you're going to say that to the wrong person
who's really struggling and it's going to have
tragic results.
Foxy,
So, that makes it wrong to speak from personal experience ? What you're saying is it's best to go along with the inventions of recent so as not to offend people who'd resort to violence when confronted by their own fables ?

Josephus goes on about the Christian culture. I mourn the results of Christianity.

I mourn the loss of history:

Much of human history is irreparably lost to us. In addition to the lost history by circumstances there is loss by design.

From "The History of Philosophy" by Grayling:

"There is a wall standing between us and the world of antiquity: the period of decline and fall of the Roman Empire and the rise to dominance of Christianity. Edward Gibbon connected the two phenomena, blaming the former on the latter. He is in significant part right. Remember that in 313 CE the Emperor Constantine gave Christianity legal status and protection by the Edict of Milan and not long afterwards, in 380 CE, the Emperor Theodosius I
decreed by the Edict of Thessalonica that Christianity was to be the
official religion of the Empire outlawing others. The change brought rapid results. From the fourth century of the Common Era (CE, formerly cited as AD) onwards a vast amount of the literature and material culture of antiquity was lost, a great deal of it purposefully destroyed. Christian zealots smashed statues and temples, defaced paintings and burned 'pagan' books, in an orgy of effacement of previous culture that lasted for several centuries. It has been estimated that as much as 90 per cent of the literature of antiquity perished in the onslaught. The Christians took the fallen stones of temples to build their churches, and over-wrote the manuscripts of the philosophers and poets with their scripture texts. It is hard to comprehend, still less to forgive, the immense loss of literature,
philosophy, history and general culture this represented. Moreover, at the time Christianity existed in a number of mutually hostile and competing versions, and the effort - eventually successful - to achieve a degree of consensus on a 'right' version required treating the others as heresies and aberrations requiring suppression, including violent suppression."

There are other examples of the deliberate destruction of the records of the past. Christianity is not the only culprit.

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