dreamtime

English

Proper noun

dreamtime

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of Dreamtime
   • 1993, Tomoko Masuzawa, In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion:

     Initially, having been denied access to men's society and their secret ceremonies, Munn encountered the dreamtime among women, in the occasion of their daily storytelling.

   • 1996, Sarah Franklin, The Sociology of Gender, page 165:

     In becoming the ancestral life-force, the ritual principals are "taken out of profane 'becoming'" and are placed within the dreamtime: "Every ritual, and every meaningful act that man performs repeats a mythical archetype; and ... this repetition involves the abolition of profane time and placing of man in a magico-relitious time which has no connection with succession in the true sense, but forms the 'eternal' now of mythical time."

   • 2008, Raymond Scupin, Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Focus, page 186:

     The dreamtime also conveys certain notions of morality.