Bora (Australian)

Bora is an initiation ceremony of a Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. a word "bora" also target to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty,the status of men. The initiation ceremony differs from Aboriginal culture to culture, but often, at a physical level, involved scarification, circumcision, subincision and, in some regions, also the removal of a tooth. During the rites, the youths who were to be initiated were taught traditional sacred songs, the secrets of the tribe's religious visions, dances, in addition to traditional lore. many different clans would assemble to participate in an initiation ceremony. Women in addition to children were non permitted to be offered at the sacred bora ground where these rituals were undertaken.

Bora terminology

The word Bora was originally taken from the Gamilaraay language spoken by the Kamilaroi people who lived in the region north of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales to southern Queensland. It was then adopted loosely to describe similar ritual sites and the ceremonies associated with them performed throughout Eastern Australia. numerous other terms survive across Australia to denote similar initiatory rites on a ceremonial ground, such as burbung Wiradjuri, and kuringal Yuin. The particular word is said to come from the belt worn by initiated men.