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What does Dreamtime mean?

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  1. (Australian Aboriginal mythology) The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.
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And our theory that the Australian aborigines had sailed and paddled in from India, during the Dreamtime of the last Ice Age, found confirmation in Canberra.
So in 1,000 years time they'll look back on this period as being part of the Dreamtime, and I'm recording what's happening now for our future generations.
I'm fascinated especially by the idea of the Aboriginal Dreamtime which, from what I gather, is the story of the world being dreamt into existence.
In a work that interprets Dreamtime stories, costumes play an integral role in demarking personas, animals and humans.
The Quinkan rock art is found within 230,000 hectares of sandstone and depicts images from the Dreamtime.
We are denying most of our children their cultural heritage, their knowledge of a Dreamtime that belongs to all Australians.

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