Gupapuyngu Funeral Ceremony in Ramingining, 2008

This is a funeral ceremony for a Gupapuyngu woman. The ceremony was held at Ramingining in north-central Arnhem Land with three main groups participating: Gupapuyngu, Gumatj and Wangurri. The Gumatj came from Elcho Island, whilst the Wangurri arrived from Dhalinybuy outstation in eastern Arnhem Land. Three different yirdaki players played for their respective groups: Carl Ngalkanbuy for the Burarrwanga singers from Elcho Island, Andrew Mingama' for the Munyarryun singers from Dhalinybuy, and David Dharrapuy for the local Gupapuyngu singers.

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Music

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• ramingining
• yirdaki
• yidaki
• didgeridoo
• didjeridu
• arnhem
• land
• yolngu
• ritual
• ceremony
• corroboree
• bunggul
• aboriginal
• dance
• carl
• ngalkanbuy

[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

[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?

[ididjaustralia]

I don't know the answer to be honest!

[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

[TeamWuJin]

Thank you for sharing this.

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

cheers

[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.

[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

[Cre8iveSignWorks]

@theotherther1

i think youll find that most aboriginals are strong christian faith

[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... :-)

[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.

[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..

[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.