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The First Nation people of Australia have lived in this ancient land for over 60,000 years. The Dreamtime is the foundation of the religion and culture, explaining how everything is created. The Spirits or the Ancestors created the land, the people, rivers, waterholes, rocks, plants, and animal-people. All life is either part of the Ancestors themselves or created by the Ancestors. “That is, a river may be an ancestor and may also be a creation snake.” The Dreaming explains why things are the way they are and is constantly evolving, also explaining modern-day events such as floods and storms. Today, it is an honor to present a selection of Dreamtime stories from the Noongahburrah First Nation people of New South Wales, Australia, from Katie Langloh Parker’s book “Australian Legendary Tales.” Bahloo the Moon and the Daens “Bahloo the moon looked down at the Earth one night, when his light was shining quite brightly, to see if anyone was moving. When the Earth people were all asleep was the time he chose for playing with his three dogs. He called them dogs, but the Earth people called them snakes, the death adder, the black snake, and the tiger snake. As he looked down on to the Earth, with his three dogs beside him, Bahloo saw about a dozen daens, or people, crossing a Creek. He called to them, saying, ‘Stop; I want you to carry my dogs across that creek.’ But the people, though they liked Bahloo well, did not like his dogs, for sometimes when he had brought these dogs to play on the Earth, they had bitten not only the Earth dogs but their masters, and the poison left by the bites had killed those bitten. So the people said, ‘No, Bahloo, we are too frightened; your dogs might bite us. They are not like our dogs, whose bite would not kill us.’ Bahloo said, ‘If you do what I ask you, when you die, you shall come to life again, not die, and stay always where you are put when you are dead. See this piece of bark. I throw it into the water.’ And he threw a piece of bark into the creek. ‘See, it comes to the top again and floats. That is what would happen to you if you would do what I ask you: first under when you die, then up again at once. If you will not take my dogs over, you foolish people, you will die like this,’ and he threw a stone into the creek, which sank to the bottom. ‘You will be like that stone, never rise again […]!’If you had done what I asked you, you could have died as often as I die and have come to life as often as I come to life. But now you will only be people while you live and bones when you are dead.’ […]”
