The Dreaming
Bill shares the "mystery" of his spiritual Creation, Buwarraja, the Dreaming, and the Dreamtime and the Songline. For Bill, there is no "mystery", there is no Wardaman word for it. The evidence of Creation is in the rocks in particular and all the natural world and it's essence is spirit.
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Transcript
Now where I am sitting here, in this rock here…
The Dreaming put it there, Dreaming put all this rock here, in the Dreamtime.
And made a Songline with this, to name all the rock, creeks, mount, river,
in the Dreamtime.
Dreamtime, way back from beginning.
We call that, Buwarraja put them in there.
Buwarraja…Dreaming, this the Dreaming for it.
Now, where I am sitting here.
This rock here, the Dreaming put it there, in the Dreamtime.
And made a Songline all the way, from this country to the hill to hill,
to many rock, Dreaming put it there, in the Dreamtime.
