In Aboriginal myth, if Dreamtime is the era when spirit beings created the world, what are the paths they traversed?
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology "The routes taken by the Creator Beings in their Dreamtime journeys across land and sea... link many sacred sites together in a web of Dreamtime tracks criss-crossing the country. Dreaming tracks can run for hundreds, even thousands of kilometres, from desert to the coast [and] may be shared by peoples in countries through which the tracks pass..." Australian anthropologists willing to generalise suggest Aboriginal myths still being performed across Australia by Aboriginal peoples serve an important social function amongst their intended audiences: justifying the received ordering of their daily lives; helping shape peoples' ideas; and assisting to influence others' behaviour.
Dreamtime Ancestors Dreamtime Ancestors Dreamtime Ancestors is a symphonic poem by the American composer Christopher Theofanidis. The work was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras sponsored by New Music for America. It was composed in the summer of 2015 and was first performed on October 3, 2015, by the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. The piece is dedicated to the late composer Stephen Paulus. "Dreamtime Ancestors" has a duration of roughly 17 minutes and is composed in three movements. The piece is based on an Australian Aboriginal myth, wherein all humans are connected through "dreamtime ancestors." "Dreamtime Ancestors" has been praised by music critics.