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  • proper noun The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence.

Etymologies

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dream +‎ time

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Examples

  • As an Idea in the One Mind of what he calls Dreamtime, he can neither be created nor destroyed, merely transformed.

    William Horden: God Is One Mind 2009

  • The studio was called Dreamtime 79 and they made many films as a way of getting the Dreamtime cult message to large audiences, an effort that ultimately failed.

    Incident at Uluru and Other Undiscovered Aussie Films Glenn Dunks 2009

  • Dreamtime 79? by Heath Killen Heath Killen, and Australian designer, has started a project called Dreamtime 79 which is series of fake film posters from the 70’s created for a fake cult that called Dreamtime 79 that built a fake film studio in the Australian Outback.

    KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘Dreamtime 79′ by Heath Killen 2009

  • The studio was called Dreamtime 79 and they made many films as a way of getting the Dreamtime cult message to large audiences, an effort that ultimately failed.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Glenn Dunks 2009

  • The north Australian terrain, created by Ancestor Beings eons ago during what the Aboriginal people know as the Dreamtime, is so rugged that many sites remain unknown to outsiders.

    A Painted Land 2002

  • Other views on kangaroo origins include the belief of some Australian Aborigines that kangaroos were sung into existence by their ancestors during the "Dreamtime" and the evolutionary view that kangaroos and the other marsupials evolved from a common marsupial ancestor which lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

    Animals 2009

  • Even nations which had once been, such as Dreamtime and Amerind, had found refuge and strength as members of the good ol 'LFN, the League of Forgotten Nations.

    Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • Heath Killen, and Australian designer, has started a project called Dreamtime 79 which is series of fake film posters from the 70’s created for a fake cult that called Dreamtime 79 that built a fake film studio in the Australian Outback.

    KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘Dreamtime 79′ by Heath Killen 2009

  • She was able not only to convey the emotional depth but the unexpected humor in the tragedies of two Vermont murders in "Dreamtime" and the plight of a juvenile sex - offender in "Rosalee Was Here," both recently produced in Vermont.

    TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region 2010

  • Sure enough, in one area we found some sandy floored caves, their roofs tinged with the signs of ancient habitation, while in another overhang we found painted art work that included emu tracks, hand prints and, the most impressive of all, a long serpent-like figure from the 'Dreamtime'

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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