Kata Tjuta in Central Australia. Dreamtime stories say the largest monolith is the home of Wanambi the snake. His breath can be heard in the valleys.

A cave painting in the Hunter Valley. It depicts Baiame, the creator spirit who comes from the sky in the Dreaming of several language groups of southeastern Australia.

In Australian Aboriginal culture, life is based on a foundation of beliefs which are called the Dreamtime, or The Dreaming. This is a complex set of ideas with deep levels of meanings. The Dreamtime has four parts: The beginning of everything; the life and power of the ancestors; the way of life and death; and power in life. Dreamtime was all four of these things at the same time because it is more powerful than time and space. In it all things exist at once. The Aboriginal peoples call Dreamtime the all-at-once time because they think it is the past, present, and future at the same time. It is a beginning that has no end.