Dreaming

See also: dreaming

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the Dreaming

  1. (Australian Aboriginal mythology) The time of the shaping of the physical and spiritual world by the ancestors; the events or beliefs connected to these times. [from 20th c.]
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 124:
      The men in this moving mirage of battered vehicles felt they had well and truly followed the Dreaming.

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