In the first reading assignment, I was most captured by the small passages in the "Into Australia" segment on Dreamtime. As someone who is fascinated by storytelling, in all its forms, I found this section to be particularly intriguing. Dreamtime refers to the the storytelling techniques early peoples used to document how all things began. These techniques included rock art, ceremonies, and stories. According to the Dreamtime, there had been beings before the hominids, arguably gods, who had created the features of the land. Dreamtime also recounted the ways in which hominids inhabited the earth, as well as their relationships to both human and animal alike.
Ultimately, I felt that this segment could have been flushed out further, based solely on my interest in Dreamtime. How did dream time come to have its name? What exactly were the stories and ceremonies involved in Dreamtime? Do the Dreamtime stories correlated with any more modern fairy tales or fables of colonized homo sapiens? Based on the reading, I can't answer these questions, much as I wish I could. With a variety of questions such as these, I should perhaps continue on to do my own research into Dreamtime.
Below is a photo I found on
photokunst of some of the Dreamtime rock art.
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