Aborigeenid (Inglise keeles)
ascents" to meet with the "sky gods". Many of the accounts of ritualistic initiation bare striking
parallels to modern day UFO contacted and abduction lore. The aboriginal shamanistic "experience of
death and rising again" in the initiation of tribal "men of high degree" finds some fascinating parallels
with modern day UFO abduction lore. The "chosen one" (either voluntarily or spontaneously) is set
upon by "spirits", ritualistically "killed", and then experiences a wondrous journey (generally an aerial
ascent to a strange realm) to met the "sky god." He is restored to life -- a new life as the tribal shaman.
Society
Aboriginal Australians were social beings who lived in a number of social groups sometimes
called bands, clans, sub-tribes and tribes, but essentially in a family or kinship group who were 1) of
the same blood-line and 2) were related to other people through totems. The larger social unit known as