Guruwari

"Guruwari" or 'Totem Design' or 'Seed Power' is an idea that appears in the Walbiri language of the culture of indigenous Australian peoples. Guruwari is intimately associated with The Dreaming of the Ancestors, Songlines and Mabain and is succinctly related in the following quotation from Lawlor (1991: p.36) who references the source of this anthropological scholarship to Munn (1984): "Guruwari refers to the invisible seed or life-energy that the Creative Ancestors deposited in the land and in all forms of nature."

ee also

* Buddha-nature
* Five Pure Lights
* Bija

References

* Lawlor, Robert (1991). "Voices Of The First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal dreamtime." Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, Ltd. ISBN 0-89281-355-5
* Munn, Nancy D. (1984). "The Transformation Of Subjects Into Objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjartjara Myths". In: M. Charlesworth, H. Morphy, D. Bell and K. Maddock, Eds. "Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology." St. Lucia, Queensland: University Of Queensland Press.