Dream-time

English Proper noun Dream-time en Dreamtime. en 1905 Andrew Lang The Secret of the Totem 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. en 1985 Daisy Bates, Isobel White The Native Tribes of Western Australia 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. en 1987 Robert S. Ellwood Many Peoples, Many Faiths 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.