Questions to consider as you read  Pintupi text

from PINTUPI COUNTRY, PINTUPI SELF

• What is The Dreaming?  How is it simultaneously symbolic, creationary, descriptive, etc.?
• What is the relationship between people and place / landscape and the Dreaming?
• What is the relationship between yuti (visible) mularrpa (real) and Tjukurrpa (The Dreaming)?
• What is the significance of The Dreaming to sacred places, yarta yarta?  Conception?
• Dreams v. The Dreaming?
• How is the The Dreaming timeless?  How are new events or situations incorporated within The Dreaming?
• What are the meanings of ngurra?  Significance?
• What is the relationship between story and place, landscape and narrative?
• How does one “own” a ritual or place – and what obligations does this entail?