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Why the stories are told

04/05/2001 By Dreamtime Leave a Comment

My name is Beryl Carmichael and my traditional name is Yungha-dhu.

I belong to the Ngiyaampaa people, come from the Ngiyaampaa nation and the area we’re in now belongs to Eaglehawk and Crow.

I’m a storyteller as well and all the stories have been handed down to me by my people. I am now custodian of about twenty-eight stories.

The stories are a wonderful and a valuable tool, an education tool in teaching our children. The ‘Dreamtime’ stories as they are referred to today, we didn’t know that there was such names for them. Because when the old people would tell the stories, they’d just refer to them as ‘marrathal warkan’ which means long, long time ago, when time first began for our people, as people on this land after creation.

We have various sites around in our country, we call them the birthing places of all our stories. And of course, the stories are embedded with the lore that governs this whole land. The air, the land, the environment, the universe, the stars.

The stories that we are passing and talking on today, we are hoping that, some way, it will help our people-and our children, our young people in particular-to get a better understanding about the lore that governs our lives today.

No matter what we do, there is always guidance there for us and the guidance comes through in the stories. And the direction that we are giving to our young people on how we expect them to grow up. How to listen to the old people, but also, never to be disobedient. We must never be disobedient; we must always obey the instructions of our old people and people in authority; always do the right thing; never be greedy; never be a thief and so on.

So all these little things are embedded in the stories to our children. That’s why the stories are so powerful as an education tool when we’re teaching our young kids. We must always refer back to the stories because they’re the ones that’s going to give them the guidance that they need today.

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