Here the doing and the being are one act. For example, in many parts of Australia you cannot hold a ceremony with just your own group. You have to balance it by having members of the other side present. These moieties are something we do not have in our society. It would be like saying you cannot have a Catholic mass without having Protestants present.
Aboriginal art appears abstract yet is distinctly narrative.
It is based on obligations to the land, to each other, and to the ancestors. The Dreaming symbols are understood by the artists who are connected with them and these have been passed on to them by the elders of the community. The Dreaming is literally sung onto the canvas, bark or ground, often in the company of young initiate painters of that same Dreaming. These Dreaming songs are the essence of Aboriginal culture. The meaning, the cosmology and the art are one whole.