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Flags pictured above : Gowa Sultanate Flag & Australia Aboriginal Flag.

=> Australia Aboriginal Flag
-Black: Represents the Aboriginal people of Australia
-Red: Represents the red earth, the red ochre and a spiritual relation to the land
-Yellow: Represents the Sun, the giver of life and protector

=> Gowa Sultanate Flag (Indonesia)
-White: Represents the the white clouds above the Sultanate
-Blue: Represents the blue sea, the sea which connects everyone in the Sultanate
-Yellow: Represents the Sun, the giver of life and protector

I am a child of the Dreamtime People
Part of this Land, like the gnarled gumtree
I am the river, softly singing
Chanting our songs on my way to the sea
My spirit is the dust-devils
Mirages, that dance on the plain
I'm the snow, the wind and the falling rain
I'm part of the rocks and the red desert earth
Red as the blood that flows in my veins
I am eagle, crow and snake that glides
Thorough the rain-forest that clings to the mountainside
I awakened here when the earth was new
There was emu, wombat, kangaroo
No other man of a different hue
I am this land
And this land is me
I am Australia.

(Poem by Hyllus Maris)

=> What is Aboriginal spirituality?

"Our spirituality is a oneness and an interconnectedness with all that lives and breathes, even with all that does not live or breathe."
—Mudrooroo, Aboriginal writer [1]

Aboriginal spirituality, Mudrooroo continues, “is a feeling of oneness, of belonging”, a connectedness with “deep innermost feelings”. Everything else is secondary.

=> Aboriginal spirituality and the land

Aboriginal spirituality is invariably also about the land Aboriginal people live on. They experience a connection to their land that is unknown to white people. A key feature of Aboriginal spirituality is to look after the land, an obligation which has been passed down as law for thousands of years.

An Aboriginal person’s soul or spirit is believed to “continue on after our physical form has passed through death”, explains Eddie Kneebone [5]. After the death of an Aboriginal person their spirit returns to the Dreamtime from where it will return through birth as a human, an animal, a plant or a rock. The shape is not important because each form shares the same soul or spirit from the Dreamtime.
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Hetalia belongs to Himaruya Hidekaz.
Makassar is the name of a city in Indonesia.
Indonesia aph, Malaysia aph & Portugal aph based on Himaruya's sketch. ([link])