The laws are for the Aborigines made by the Creation Ancestors. They turned animals or plants, which did not obey that law, into stones. The hills and mountains were made in that way. Some plants and animals were rewarded for obeying the laws and were made into people. Specific traditions, rituals, laws and art link the people of each clan to the land they occupy.
All clans have places to which their spirits return when they die.
The Aborigines believe that to destroy or damage a sacred site threatens not only the living but also the spiritual inhabitants of the land. Every individual has his own own totem. The Australian native feels a relation between himself and a specific plant or animal or a cosmical phenomenon. This connection is very important and he must obey a great deal of of rights, duties and prohibitions. An example for the importance of totems is that totem groups determine the relation system and marriage.