Abstract: The Aranda tribe living in central Australia is one of the biggest and best studied. Relatively much is known of their cosmogony, anthropology and reincarnation concepts, while little is known about what specific people believed. Some of the first researchers were W. B. Spencer and F. J. Gillen (who coined the term dream time) and father and son C. Strehlow and T. G. H. Strehlow (who contradicted the belief that the Aranda people are homogenous and explained that the term dream time is a mistranslation of mythical time and prehistoric eternity)...
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