"Dream-time" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1905, Andrew Lang, The Secret of the Totem, page 70:",
          "text": "A group, whether stationary or migratory, in the myths of the Dream-Time ( the Alcheringa ) always consists of persons of the same totem, with occasional visitors of other totems.",
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          "ref": "1985, Daisy Bates, Isobel White, The Native Tribes of Western Australia, page 148:",
          "text": "From then on it became increasingly the custom among European and Aboriginal Australians to refer to that long past time as The Dreaming or The Dream-time, the Ancestors themselves as Dream-time Beings and the totems connected with them as Dreamings.",
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          "ref": "1987, Robert S. Ellwood, Many Peoples, Many Faiths, page 36:",
          "text": "In the Dream-time of the beginning, godlike ancestors deposited the souls of all the living in \"spirit wells\" near several watering holes, or else the souls came from a great serpent underground, or down from the sky above.",
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