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Dream Time

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Dream Time

  1. Alternative form of Dreamtime
    • 1905, Katie Langloh Parker, The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia, page 2:
      There is a belief in spirit-haunted trees, as among the Arunta, and there is a form of the Arunta myth of the 'Dream Time,' the age of pristine evolution.
    • 1959, Sidney Hobson Courtier, Death in Dream Time, page 43:
      Every bird, animal fish, insect or plant of today was in the Dream Time a cultural hero, a totem founder.
    • 2012, The Abbotts, Dream Time Magic and Other Australian Legends:
      The Dream Time long ago was a special 'everywhere' time where the ancestral heroes and gods lived.