Land 'It is complicated or indeed impossible to translate the term land by a single concept or to summarise the whole complex ideas associated with it as it was in the case of cosmogony or of the Aboriginal interpretation of the world. Land is not material, but rather a religious and social quantity. Land is not possessed, it is merely administered in a religious, philosophical and socio-cultural sense. Land implies being spiritually >at home<. Land in its contemporary physiographic form was created by the heroes of prehistoric times. Traditional obligations require continuos contact with specific places in the form of ceremonies which are to be repeated cyclically. Land is living, internalised religious and social reality and thus it possesses a personified dimension. For this reason Land is tied in a material and in a spiritual way and it cannot therefore be transferred to anyone else by sale.' Footnotes to Aranjarak- Art of Australia