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Tingari Ancestors In the beginning of time a group of old men called the Tingari Ancestors travelled throughout the desert creating sacred sites, and visiting isolated camps to teach Aboriginal people the languages, law and ceremonies which were to be rigidly adhered to and passed down to their descendants by word of mouth, singing and dancing in sacred ceremonies. To this day it remains the most secret and sacred of all the desert ‘dreamings’ and although artists are now depicting the Tingari exploits in paintings on canvas, they will reveal little, if any information which would allow outsiders to interpret the meanings. The Tingari men were accompanied by young boys who were to be initiated at various sites along the way, and men of varying degrees of initiation who were yet to complete the age grading rites which would allow them to become men of high degree or ‘old’ men. The adage of “old” does not relate to chronological age but to the amount of knowledge a man acquires by means of going through all of his ceremonies. Tingari women usually accompanied the novices to give them support and encouragement in undergoing their initiation ordeals, but they stayed some distance away from the ceremonial ground. On their travels important serpents crossed their paths at times and were incorporated into the song and dance cycles. At one point the women separated from the men and continued on their way in an easterly direction. At the places, which they visited, they taught their own dreamings and ceremonies to the women and these continue to be performed to the present day at these same sites.
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