Many aborigines would say that the land is their mother and many places are sacred to their belief. ... It is believed by indigenous people that the Rainbow Serpent is responsible for eating humans and regurgitating the bones, which then became stone as a reminder to others. ... During the initiation ceremonies songs and stories of Ancestral Beings are told, some of the stories told during the ceremony are open for women and children to hear but other stories are "secret-sacred" for only the initiates to hear. ...

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