dreaming track

dreaming track

English

Noun

dreaming track (plural dreaming tracks)

1. (Australian Aboriginal mythology) A path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting. [from 20th c.]
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 124:

     The spiritual Dreaming track of the ceremony in which they were all involved, moved along the most isolated back roads, across the landscape, through almost every desert in the continent.

Synonyms

• dreamtime track
• songline

Translations

path across the land

Chinese: Mandarin: 夢幻路線／梦幻路线 (mènghuàn lùxiàn) (no equivalent exists; lit. "fantasy route") Finnish: uniaikainen reitti Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Dreamtime
• Dreaming