Gupapuyngu Funeral Ceremony in Ramingining, 2008

[imReptawr]

The two guys that are playing in the mud at 2:10 does that not depict the formation of Uluru? Just curious, i feel i mightve read that somewhere.

[ididjaustralia]

@imReptawr no it doesn't uluru is about 1000 km away and not related to these ppl depicted in this video

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

i went to a funeral last week and everyone sat around crying and feeling sorry for themselves....but i much rather be celebrating the life of the decieced person like these people are doing, than mourning the death of them.

it just seems much better for everyone!

thanks for adding the text in the video too....it was very informative!

cheers

[Escekar]

Because it was a Funeral Ceremony.. I was Scared to watch it out of Cultural Respect. But after viewing it, It showed me the Meaning behind Funeral Ceremonies..

thanks ididaustralia... :-)

[chalwanda2]

well being from africa the funeral is a great occassion , its a happy time where people sit together the dancing is amazing in my culture, we share food we dance . we encourage each other . its happy moment of expressing our love our grief and bury the beloved . as the saying goes it takes the whole village to araise a child so it does to funeral takes the whole village to participate

[theotherther1]

On religious Christian, Muslim and Jewish videos someone always comments that religion is a bunch of lies and the video's participants are deluded. Then there's a fundamentalist flamewar.

Yet I never see those kinds of comments on videos like this. I am NOT saying Aboriginal religion is garbage, that would be THE LAST THING I want to imply. It's just weird that people who have nothing but hatred for Christianity or Judaism or Islam defer to all other religions.

Why is that?

[theotherther1]

Oh wait, I was wrong. There are bashers and fundamentalists of every faith on YouTube. But videos of indigenous religions generally don't get flamed by anyone other than people who just hate everyone.

And they don't say " all religion is shit" but "these people look stupid because I've never seen this kind of thing." Either that or they're "White Man's Burden" types.

[ididjaustralia]

I don't know the answer to be honest!

[BenderWA]

@ididjaustralia It's because, to my knowledge, Aboriginal people don't go around forcing their spiritual ideas on every other culture on the entire planet.

[popinjay3000]

@theotherther1 other non semitic religions have not been involved in missionary backed collonialism, religious wars and the purposeful vision to destroy other non semitic cultures or to damn non believers to hell...most secular people do not hate beliefs that are benign, introverted and spiritual at its heart...i guess you cant begrudge them that..

[theotherther1]

@popinjay3000

I've thought about it and that makes sense. Someone else has told me that religions' validity is determined by how stupid or smart the members act. Semitic religions have been responsible for disgusting degeneracy...compared to the Inquisition the bullet ant ritual of some Aboriginal tribes is a kindergarten game.

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

@theotherther1

i think youll find that most aboriginals are strong christian faith

[minzhide]

@theotherther1 Maybe it's not that people have a problem with religion at all, but rather with people shoving them down their throats. Traditional religions aren't built around trying to convert everyone and their brother like Christianity and Islam, and if you get bound up in one of those you're rather obliged to rag on Judaism in order to explain why you chose a tradition that's the bastard child of Judaism and historical circumstance rather than going with a direct corruption.

[Dewyoudidj]

A very, very informative and powerful video. Thank you for posting this.

Did you film this Guan?

-Simon

[kantoklui]

that was awesome.. thanks so much for posting.

[TeamWuJin]

Thank you for sharing this.

I am trying to teach my daughter about Australian culture. This helps alot.

cheers

[nyarnwandid]

yah i got family from dharlin and elcho

[gezellig21]

thankyou so much, i was mesmerized.

[mporlachucha]

bless up´!! f

[kaisenji]

Thank you for sharing this. Makes me wonder how much my own people (african americans) have lost by not trying to keep some aspects of our culture here in the States. Told my own parent if I should go early don't bother with a funeral-save the cash, do cremation and have a party instead.

[leloby]

Blessed be the spirit of our ancestors.

Jack Daniels has a lot to answer for.

[Didgeriroo]

such a beautiful ceremony, good to see the young fullas dancing with the elders too, passing knowledge. awesome stuff guan

[ozzietraveller]

Thank you for posting this Guan.

[igmontecristo]

Thanks a lot ididjaustralia for sharing!!!!!

[gramophoneshane]

What can I say that already hasn't been said!

Thankyou for sharing this very personal but fasinating ceremony. A celebration of a life passed through music, song & dance.

You know, the one thing us white folks & the powers that be can never take away from you is your heritage & traditions, and I'm so glad that these traditions are being passed on to younger generations. I feel truly privledged to have been allowed to share this with you. Thank you & my condolences to the families involved.

[WhiteTiger333]

Blessings to the woman who passed on and blessings to the ceremony participants. Thanks very much for sharing it. Solemnity to triumph. Recognition of grief to ending with honoring the joy of life. (At least, that's what it seemed, as I don't understand the words).

And auspicious rain fell during the ceremony! :)

[maureeno8]

i as a non aboriginal australian felt truly touched by being privelaged to watch this sacred ceremony, my heritage is irish and they sure know how to send one off to the next world but this ceremony truly embraced everybody present, young, old, male of female. what a wonderful spiritual atmosphere for all. thank you

[bethsheeba3]

Thank you for sharing the ceremony. I am very glad I found your channel and hopefully I can learn more about the original people of this great land.

[wLsMeTaLsToRm]

its truely beautiful to see that in some parts of the world there is still such a high regard for life... you can realy hear the remorse in the way they sing and play.. its realy amazing

[sonofthedestroyer]

These funerals are so different from western funerals where people just stand still and mourn in silence. Here it is full of activity and drama. This is similar to ancient Tamil customs in India where they dance around a corpse to celebrate it being freed into higher dimensions of existance.

[Bonescan]

That was fascinating. In some ways i feel like i should not be watching such a private ceremony, but i guess they are happy for people to see aspect of their culture.

*****

[tjey]

great thanks so much