The Dreaming

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title: The Dreaming
text: The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal mythology. It was originally used by Francis Gillen, quickly adopted by his colleague Sir Baldwin Spencer and thereafter popularised by A. P. Elkin, who, however, later revised his views. The Dreaming is used to represent Aboriginal concepts of "Everywhen", during which the land was inhabited by ancestral figures, often of heroic pro
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description: Sacred era in Australian Aboriginal mythology
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreaming
date created: 2002-09-28T23:31:57Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T03:29:51Z
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