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(Australian Aboriginal mythology) The time of the creation of the world, by the ancestors out of their own essence. quotations
The tall slender birds were performing a legendary fight in the Dreamtime story – one that the old law had marked on them forever with a wattle of flaming red skin on the back of their heads.
2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 101