ABSTRACT
Many people would admit they know little or nothing about Australian Aboriginal religion, but even among them few would not have heard of the notion of the ‘Dreaming’ or ‘Dreamtime’. It is an evocative word which on the one hand we readily equate with the very essence of Aboriginal religiosity, and which on the other conjures up a host of inappropriate images from Western folk culture to psychoanalysis and the New Age. In brief, it is an important concept which is more often than not totally misunderstood.
