Aboriginal dreamtime

Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime, Mythology - Crystalinks

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"The Dreamtime" is actually the story of creation as believed and told by the Australian Aboriginals. The unlikely inspiration for this article was the name of Ursula Le Guin's "The Beginning Place"

Colleen Wallace Nungari | Dreamtime Sisters

Aboriginal and dream time story stone rocks!

Art is not something that happened in one era and that too when human beings were in a position where their basic needs were taken care of and they had the luxury of time and leisure to indulge in artistic pursuits. In fact, if you would notice art still existed when humans had to forage for simple needs like food, shelter and clothing. What else would explain the fact that the most ancient of tribes still found the time and wherewithal to create some form of art or the other? We should take…

The theme for NAIDOC week 2016 is Songlines: The Living Narrative of our Nation. But what exactly are "Songlines"? For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the Dreamtime describes a time when the earth, people and animals were created by our ancestral spiritual beings. They created the rivers, lakes, plants, land formations and living creatures. Dreaming tracks crisscross Australia and trace the journeys of our ancestral spirits as they created the land, animals and lores. These…

Information about the very misunderstood Aboriginal Dreamtime, what it is and what it means to the Australian Aboriginal people.