Chapter 1: First Peoples;First Farmers

Destiny Williams
Professor Andrews
World History

                                                    First Peoples:First Farmers

• These peoples,Natives,or Aboriginals are in Australia on an island
• Gathering and hunting became a way of life after the Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century.
• In modern Australia these native peoples persisted into the 21st century as minority and very few still practice their ancient culture.
• These Aboriginals developed myths,legends,and stories that give expression to the Aboriginal cosmology and understand of the world
• The stories told were majority about the landscape, humans and animals which lived here and mythical ancestors 
• Before humans arrived beings of ancestral sort emerged and traversed the land and earth
• Ancestral beings had rock art that still make presence, image, and shadow
• Explanation: This portion of the chapter shares that there is proof of other beings besides human. It shows that things have been around as long as before the first humans became about . This is important because it shows that we all may not understand what they went through and we may not know the experience but the Aboriginal peoples started art and they started surviving with little to nothing.
• Understanding Creation:
• The dreamtime in this context is "time before time" 
• These beings somehow vanished when work they were doing was done
• Yhi Brings Life to the World:
• In the very beginning there was nothing except quiet, no vegetation, living, or moving thing, was not dead but asleep
• It was said that the earth was frozen so undead things lay icy in the mountains
• Yhi is a sun goddess of light and creation 
• Baiame the great spirit is a creator deity, Sky Father who would come to her and whisper and that is how the world will awaken. 
• Yhi recrossed her tracks and kept crossing them until the whole earth was covered in grasses, trees, vegetation in general
• Yhi was stronger then many evil spirits such as in the gloomy spaces beneath the surface, evil spirits wouldn't let beings awake but the creatures have been waiting for Yhi's warm touch and soon creatures from all over started to surround and follow her.
• This chapter is basically just explaining how everything came to pass, It is basically showing how everything started how animals arouse. This is saying how even when something is trying to keep you from succeeding you can still achieve what you were originally aiming to do.