Module 10: Section One Hopefully, you would have all been able to download the D

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Module 10: Section One Hopefully, you would have all been able to download the D'harawal Counting Book from the website. When the White Man first came here he complained that Aboriginal people only seemed to know two numbers, one, two and many. If you look at your Counting book, you will see that in a way, he was right, we only ever beld up fingers but it was the particular combination of the two fingers and the position of the hands which allowed us to count up to one hundred just on our two hands alone. To demonstrate, an explorer once asked how many days to Moreton Bay two fingers only, and assumed that it was only two days away. The explorer very quickly commented that the Aboriginal people did not know how to count. The actual answer was twenty nine. Practice it, it can be fun. Hold up both index fingers with the palms facing outwards - the explorer saw Module 10: Section Two. The use of many plants as medicine was quite common, it was only the knowledge of the uses of the more dangerous plants that was confined to those who had proved their worthiness to be knowledgeholders. The D'harawals were the first Peoples of This Land to fall victim to the diseases brought here by the Europeans. They had no immunity against influenza, the measles, or chicken pox, or scarlet fever, and they succumbed, estimates range between 85% and 95% of the original inhabitants of the Sydney region died of the diseases. The result was that a great deal of the knowledge would have been lost, had it not been for the manner in which that knowledge was transmitted to the young. Every child, every teenager, every adult carried particles of knowledge with them, and still do today. All children of the D'harawal will tell you, at some time during a walk through the bush, that "My Nan used to tell me that that plant over there was good for..... whatever. The knowledge was held collectively, and the fact that it has been over two hundred years since our society was destroyed down to its rootstock, demonstrates the effectiveness of our methods of teaching. Plants were not the only source of medicine for the curing or treatment of disease, or the healing of injury, or even alteration of mood, animals, insects, spiders, and other creeping crawlies were

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Once a very bad tempered man Bahnaga threatened everyone with a poison bag he had. Managa assured that he was the bravest of all and would help people to get rid of this poison bag. But he failed and died. Similarly one by one the fastest runner Burra and the greatest warrior Wombat also failed because they all were aware of their strengths but did not take care of their weaknesses. And thus, made fateful mistakes of which Bahnaga took advantage. Finally the slim little black snake woman Mundah went to get the poison bag with a deal that if she succeeded people would let her live with her children. She gave berries and juice to Bahnaga and was very kind to him. When he came closer to her, she tricked him and got what she wanted. But the poison from the bag had turned her front into red and yellow and made her deaf. As per the promise she was allowed to live with her family. With her kind words she had achieved what the most brave warriors could not. She promised to protect people from other poinous creatures forever since she now had the poison bag.

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