Aboriginal women did most of the gathering and root-digging of the many plants used by their tribes.
The Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 40,000 years, and in all those long generations the land provided them with everything they needed for a healthy life.
For the Aboriginal person, the bush is a part of him/herself.
Mythology is the body of stories associated with a particular culture, stories attempting in some way to explain aspects of the world.
Mythology does more than link water with women; in many myths and legends, water is both a source of life and a place of death.
According to Australian Aboriginalmythology, All-mother arrived from the sea in the form of a rainbow serpent with children (the Ancestors) inside her.
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