The Australian aboriginal Dreamtime is a timeless mythic 'world' that exists for all eternity. In the Dreamtime, the Ancestors walked the earth, and created everything - plants, animals, geology and landscape. Many rituals in Australian aboriginal culture allow the tribe to contact the Dreamtime, to once again 'live in it' and be renewed, if only for a short time.
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Scattered over 860 acres of Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso, Texas, are about 2000 rock paintings thought to have been created about 800 years ago. Rust, cream and white figures dance on the rock faces, depicting life of man and beast from centuries ago. To get a glimpse of the figures visitors to the site have to crawl, wriggle and squeeze their way into narrow crevices where the original artists had the foresight to record their musings in a space protected from the elements.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
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