- 12 Jan 2019 08:01
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Before I start this thread I want to apologize in advance if it comes across as disrespectful or ignorant. That is not my intention. I would like to discuss the concept and in this instance specifically Australian Indigenous Dreamtime.
Wikipedia explains that Dreamtime was first coined by anthropologists to explain the Indigenous world view. I guess my question is, did they get it right? Is it valid? And can it really be explained?
I’ll tell you one thing. I always thought Dreamtime was an allegory until I heard an Aboriginal person on the telly explaining that for them, it was all true! That it was their story of how the lands around them were physically created. Total spin out.
I can’t help but feel that Dreamtime was a misleading term.
Thoughts?
Wikipedia explains that Dreamtime was first coined by anthropologists to explain the Indigenous world view. I guess my question is, did they get it right? Is it valid? And can it really be explained?
I’ll tell you one thing. I always thought Dreamtime was an allegory until I heard an Aboriginal person on the telly explaining that for them, it was all true! That it was their story of how the lands around them were physically created. Total spin out.
I can’t help but feel that Dreamtime was a misleading term.
Thoughts?
The real problem of humanity is that we have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology - Edward Wilson