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1. At the beginning of everything in the legends of the Ngiyaampaa aboriginal people of Australia was the Dreaming, and the creatures dwelling there who were all brought to life by the power of the Wandjina. In which part of the far northern area of the country do they believe this creator dwells?
2. When each creator spirit completed the earthly task it was assigned, the Ngiyaampaa people of Australia believe it then turned itself into which artistic object?
3. What particularly fascinating and physiologically necessary fact about the creation of the earth do the Ngiyaampaa aboriginal people of Australia believe?
4. Another rare belief associated with the spirits who created the world is that sometimes their spirits leave the caves or waterholes where they dwell. The Australian Ngiyaampaa people believe they then do what?
5. Droughts and floods and other devastating forces of nature which assaulted the landscape of the ancient Ngiyaampaa aboriginal people of Australia were believed to have been caused by the breaking of which taboo?
6. The Ngiyaampaa people of Australia often depicted the faces of the images of their creator spirits and guides without which communicative facial features?
7. This could make you hop around in delight. What do Australia's Ngiyaampaa aboriginal people believe caused the hills to be formed on the land?
8. One of the Dreaming legends of the Ngiyaampaa aboriginal people of Australia tell of a certain water dwelling creature found in the dry heart of the land. As it was being cooked on a fire one day, it escaped and flew up to the sky to become the moon. What was that creature?
9. What is the legend behind the birth of the sun believed by the Ngiyaampaa aboriginal people of Australia?
10. Another lovely legend of Australia's Ngiyaampaa aboriginal people involves the creation of the winding rivers on the land. Which animal is most associated with this?
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