Australian Aborigines #1

5.3 Law

Aboriginal societies had a wide range of codes that drew people

in their behavior. Aboriginal societies had not developed a system

written, so everything (including laws) were passed in society as

oral tradition and the people were constantly reminded of their duties. The

Elders were considered the leading expert in judicial matters. infractions

of the law they were punished in various ways. When they were done, people

He is waiting for someone to take the decisions and formalize punishments.

Given the fact that the Great Ancestors Creative Beings made the law in

Dreamtime, the law was not seen as something separate from the wider circle

of so-called traditional "religious." knowledge and that ensured that the rituals were recited in the way

right were subject to punishment if adempievano to their duties in the manner

right. Women and children were forbidden the view of the masculine sacred rituals. The

punishments were severe, sometimes several men were killed because they had

shared with women the "sacred knowledge".