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Do the terms 'The Dreaming'/'Dreamtime' describe a system of signs common to many Aboriginal cultures from common inheritance or long interaction before colonisation, or are they from one people's culture and used to reinterpret a lot of very different cultural phenomena in the post-colonial era?

by /u/fiahhu in /r/AskHistorians

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