Dream Time

A form of dreamtime — The time for dreaming.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Dreamtime.

    The Dream Time long ago was a special 'everywhere' time where the ancestral heroes and gods lived.

    2012, The Abbotts, Dream Time Magic and Other Australian Legends
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    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.

    1905, Katie Langloh Parker, The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia, page 2

    Every bird, animal fish, insect or plant of today was in the Dream Time a cultural hero, a totem founder.

    1959, Sidney Hobson Courtier, Death in Dream Time, page 43
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