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Country and ancestral law
Ancestral beings shape particular countries. People know this by kin, song, and ceremony. The Dreaming is an English gloss.
Hundreds of peoples. Do not draw one Aboriginal theology, and do not restack this as heavens above a neutral earth.
Ancestral beings shape country. Law, kin, and ceremony are how people know. No continental system is filed.
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Ancestral shaping
Local. Not a creation from nothing shared by all.
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Country
Tracks and sites, not a world-axis.
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Ancestral beings
Of that country. Not an exportable pantheon.
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People of the law
Personhood is relational and not one definition.
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Death in local law
No shared heaven. Spirit return is not universal.
- Time
- Not a line toward apocalypse and not a kalpa. The English word Dreaming does not settle the metaphysics.
- Agents
- Ancestral beings and the living under law.
- Human slot
- To keep law in country. No shared telos-sentence.
- Break
- Breach of law, locally understood. Not a cosmic anti-god.