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Dreamtime
The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding
of the world, of it's creation, and it's great stories. The Dreamtime
is the beginning of knowledge, from which came the laws of existence.
For survival these laws must be observed.
The Dreaming world was the old time of the Ancestor Beings. They emerged from the earth at the time of the creation. Time began in the world the moment these supernatural beings were "born out of their own Eternity". The Earth was a flat surface, in darkness. A dead, silent world. Unknown forms of life were asleep, below the surface of the land. Then the supernatural Ancestor Beings broke through the crust of the earth form below , with tumultuous force. The sun rose out of the ground. The land received light for the first time. |
 Dreamtime painting by Norbett Lynch |
| The
supernatural Beings, or Totemic Ancestors, resembled creatures or
plants, and were half human. They moved across the barren surface
of the world. They travelled hunted and fought, and changed the form
of the land. In their journeys, they created the landscape, the mountains,
the rivers, the trees, waterholes, plains and sandhills. They made
the people themselves, who are descendants of the Dreamtime ancestors.
They made the Ant, Grasshopper, Emu, Eagle, Crow, Parrot, Wallaby,
Kangaroo, Lizard, Snake, and all food plants. They made the natural
elements : Water, Air, Fire. They made all the celestial bodies :
the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Then, wearied from all their activity,
the mythical creatures sank back into the earth and returned to their
state of sleep. Sometimes their spirits turned into rocks or trees or a part of the landscape. These became sacred places, to be seen only by initiated men. These sites had special qualities. | |
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