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Dream Time
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Dream Time
en Dreamtime.
en 1905 Katie Langloh Parker The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia 2 There is a belief in spirit-haunted trees, as among the Arunta, and there is a form of the Arunta myth of the 'Dream Time,' the age of pristine evolution.
en 1959 Sidney Hobson Courtier Death in Dream Time 43 Every bird, animal fish, insect or plant of today was in the Dream Time a cultural hero, a totem founder.
en 2012 The Abbotts Dream Time Magic and Other Australian Legends The Dream Time long ago was a special 'everywhere' time where the ancestral heroes and gods lived.