dreamtime

dreamtime
/dreem"tuym'/, n.
the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines. Also called alcheringa, the dreaming.
[1905-10; DREAM + TIME]

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