The Dreamtime

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The Dreamtime or Dreamings in Aboriginal Culture. 

All objects are living and share the same soul or spirit Aboriginal people share. Nature is no different.

This belief shows their concept of oneness. The hallmark of Aboriginal culture is ‘oneness with nature.

Prominent rocks, canyons, rivers, waterfalls, islands, beaches and other natural features – as well as sun, moon, visible stars and animals – have their own stories of creation and inter-connectedness.

Over their long history, a complex and rich Aboriginal mythology has evolved. It has been passed down from generation to generation. This mythology is known as the Dreamtime (Alchera) Legends. The Dream-time is the mystical time during which the Aborigines’ ancestors established their world. These myths from ancient times are accepted as a record of absolute truth. They dominate the cultural life of the people.

Dreamings or Dream Time creates access to the ancestral world. The Aboriginal lifestyle can be divided into the human or what I think of as the real world, from the sacred world and the physical world.

The human world, which I will just call their “reality,” is the world that consists of the people, their culture in the generic form, and basically their daily lives.

The sacred world is where Dreamings take place.

It is the ancestral world where the world was created, where ancestors are roaming and creating. This world in not situated only in the past but also in the present.

Finally, there is the Physical world which connects the previous two realms. The physical world is the landscape, it is nature, it is land formations, and it is the tangible materializations of the world. During their Dreamings or Dream Time, aboriginals witness and learn the creation stories that formed the physical world.

The Myths of these stories often revolve around notions like: The sky gods where sleeping but then they arose and created the landscape by transforming into different characters along the way. Once the Sky Gods were done with formations they took the shape of different features of the land like rocks or mountains (Eliade 1973:45). The Dream Time then is a time to transcend from their reality to another worldly realm. This is to discover the stories of their ancestors and their totems. This is where they learn the stories of their realities.

https://waterconservationcommunity.org/aboriginal-literature-the-relevance-of-oneness-with-nature-and-the-vitality-of-water/

 

 

Edited November 18, 2023 by Merkabah Star

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I was born blind and I don't know why
God knows why because he love me so
As I grew up, my spirit knew
Then I learnt to read the world of destruction

United we stand, divided we fall
Together we'll stand, in solidarity

 

 

 

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Based on an Aboriginal Dreamtime story of Waatji Pulyeri (the Blue Wren)