The Dreamtime — Living Law of the Land

The Dreamtime is not a time in the past. It is a dimension of reality that exists simultaneously with the present — the foundational layer of existence where the Ancestor Beings created the world, and where those Beings still live and can still be accessed through ceremony, art, and the proper maintenance of Country. The Songlines that crisscross Australia are the tracks of the Ancestor Beings — routes that are simultaneously geographical, spiritual, musical, and legal. To sing the Songline is to maintain the world. Elders who carry the songs carry more than culture. They carry the operational instructions for a universe that requires active maintenance from the people who live in it.

These signs carry the Ancestor Being in motion, the Songline map, the sacred site ochre, and the oldest living knowledge system on earth.