Indigenous Australian

The Creation of Humans

How the first humans were created and given their place in the world.

Various traditions tell of human creation from the earth, from trees, or from the bodies of ancestral beings. These stories establish humanity's place within nature - not above it, but as part of it, with responsibilities to maintain the balance established in the Dreaming.

We were made from this earth. We belong to it, and it belongs to us.

Traditional Teaching, Oral Tradition

Human creation stories establish fundamental relationship between people and land.

Oral Tradition