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Dreamtime - 2 dictionary results

dream⋅time

[dreem-tahym]
–noun
the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
Also called alcheringa, the dreaming.


Origin:
1905–10; dream + time
dream·time also Dream·time   (drēm'tīm')   
n.  The time of the creation of the world in Australian Aboriginal mythology: "Aboriginal myths tell of the legendary totemic beings who wandered across the country in the Dreamtime . . . singing the world into existence" (Bruce Chatwin).

[Translation of Aranda (Aboriginal language of central Australia) aljerreŋe, in the dreamtime : aljerre, dream + -ŋe, from, of.]
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