ith giving the land form by creating rivers, mountains, sand hills, billabongs, trees, humans, animals, insects and all other creatures (Crystal 3). It is also said that the ancestral beings were responsible for the creation of all celestial bodies, including the sky, sun, moon, planets and stars. Aborigines believe that these ancestral beings laid down the laws that all people of their community must obey, some of which are still followed in many Aboriginal communities today. Furthermore, the ancestral beings are said to have created the 'Dreaming Tracks', which connect all creatures of the sacred world to one another and define boundaries of all territory belonging to certain tribes within the landscape (Burns 2). After they had populated they land, it is believed that these ancestral beings changed into aspects of the landscape where they still remain today, empowering it with their presence. For indigenous Australians, the past is still alive and vital today and will remain so into the future. The ancestral spirits and their powers have not gone; they are present in the forms into which the changed at the end of the 'Dreamtime'. Thus, everything in the natural world is a symbolic footprint of the metaphysical beings whose actions created our world (Crystal 3).
             Just as the expression 'Dreamtime' is used to describe the 'time before time' or the 'creation of all things' the expression 'Dreaming' is often used to refer to a set of beliefs or spirituality related to the 'Dreamtime'. Each tribe within Aboriginal Australia has its own individual 'Dreaming', however, many of the beliefs and legends held by individual tribes overlap with one another (Arden 23). The life of an individual Aboriginal, who can be referred to as a person of the 'Dreamtime', is lived according to the guidelines laid down for society by the ancestors or ...