What does dream time mean?
Dream time means (proscribed) Alternative form of Dreamtime..
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(proscribed) Alternative form of Dreamtime..
Initially, having been denied access to men's society and their secret ceremonies, Munn encountered the dreamtime among women, in the occasion of their daily storytelling.
In becoming the ancestral life-force, the ritual principals are "taken out of profane 'becoming'" and are placed within the dreamtime: "Every ritual, and every meaningful act that man performs repeats a mythical archetype; and ... this repetition involves the abolition of profane time and placing of man in a magico-relitious time which has no connection with succession in the true sense, but forms the 'eternal' now of mythical time."
The dreamtime also conveys certain notions of morality.
Use dream time when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dream time means (proscribed) Alternative form of Dreamtime..
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Initially, having been denied access to men's society and their secret ceremonies, Munn encountered the dreamtime among women, in the occasion of their daily storytelling.
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