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DREAMTIME - THE DREAMING

Posted by Jon King on Dec 05, 2008

Tagged with: aborigine, all-at-once-time, creation myth, dreamtime, mystery, myth & legend, supernatural, the dreaming

‘Dreamtime’ is the Aborigine creation myth, an all-at-once-time containing past, present and future, also known as ‘The Dreaming’...

Dreamtime: The Creation Myth

With every tribe and culture comes a unique creation myth, telling the story of how the earth and all its peoples and creatures came into being. Dreamtime — or The Dreaming, as it is also known — is one such myth.

According to Australia’s Aborigines, the Dreamtime contains the earth’s mythical past, and is the home of the spiritual beings who shaped the lands, set human beings in their rightful territories and provided them with laws and rituals by which they were to live.

In one respect the Dreamtime is a sacred ‘Once-Upon-A-Time’ when all things were created, a sort of mythical ‘Big Bang’ from which all of life first sprang.

But as well as being a distant point in time it is also very much an ever-present ‘All-At-Once-Time’ containing past, present and future, and in which, according to Aboriginal tradition, an invisible part of every human being eternally exists.

Simply put, the Dreamtime is inextricably woven into the fabric of everyday Aborigine life, as inseparable from their daily routine and thought processes as is money, greed, fear and power from ours. Which is a scary thought.

If you’d like to share your Dreamtime experiences, we would genuinely love you to do so here…

image source: Tourism NT