Aborigeenid (Inglise keeles)
Sitting beside a grave - sometimes shaded with a hut or covering to provide shelter for the mourner or
mourners - involved ensuring that the deceased person's spirit had gone to the 'sky camp' or to its spirit-
place. Obviously it is impossible to say 'how' they knew or considered when this happened. However
after the mourning period was completed, a deceased person's name was never mentioned again. This
often involved inventing new words for totems but was based on their superstitious beliefs in a personal
spirit and ghosts.
The belief in a personal spirit was based on the Dreamtime stories that told the people that birth was the
result of a spirit-child entering a woman's body. Or in some parts of the country, birth had been an act
of the creators.
The Aborigines considered some places to be sacred. In some parts of Australia the tribes called
the places where initiation ceremonies were held, bora grounds
annaabi.ee 
