Meanings
plural dreaming tracks
- Australian Aboriginal mythologyA path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting.First known use 20th c.
The spiritual Dreaming track of the ceremony in which they were all involved, moved along the most isolated back roads, across the landscape, through almost every desert in the continent.
2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 124Synonyms: dreamtime track, songline
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting.
Translations
Finnish uniaikainen reitti
- uniaikainen reittipath across the land
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