The founding stories of Aboriginal Australia in which ancestral beings shaped the land and laid down law: the Dreaming or Tjukurpa as a whole, the Rainbow Serpent of water and creation and the Seven Sisters song cycle. A myth belongs here when its cited article describes an ancestral being cycle of an Aboriginal Australian people. It excludes creation myths of other peoples. Examples in the atlas include The Dreaming (Tjukurpa).
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The Dreaming (Wikipedia)
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The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal mythology.
Rainbow Serpent (Wikipedia)
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The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator god, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples.
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