Dream-time

English

Proper noun

Dream-time

  1. Alternative form of Dreamtime.
    • 1905, Andrew Lang, The Secret of the Totem, page 70:
      A group, whether stationary or migratory, in the myths of the Dream-Time ( the Alcheringa ) always consists of persons of the same totem, with occasional visitors of other totems.
    • 1985, Daisy Bates, Isobel White, The Native Tribes of Western Australia, page 148:
      From then on it became increasingly the custom among European and Aboriginal Australians to refer to that long past time as The Dreaming or The Dream-time, the Ancestors themselves as Dream-time Beings and the totems connected with them as Dreamings.
    • 1987, Robert S. Ellwood, Many Peoples, Many Faiths, page 36:
      In the Dream-time of the beginning, godlike ancestors deposited the souls of all the living in "spirit wells" near several watering holes, or else the souls came from a great serpent underground, or down from the sky above.
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