Editing The Dreaming (section)

==Translations and meaning==
In English, anthropologists have variously translated words normally understood to mean Dreaming or Dreamtime in a variety of other ways, including "Everywhen", "world-dawn", "ancestral past", "ancestral present", "ancestral now" (satirically), "unfixed in time", "abiding events" or "abiding law".{{sfn|Swain|1993|pp=21–22}}

Most translations of the Dreaming into other languages are based on the translation of the word ''dream''. Examples include {{lang|fr|Espaces de rêves}} in French ("dream spaces") and {{lang|hr|Snivanje}} in Croatian (a gerund derived from the verb for "to dream").{{sfn|Nicholls|2014c}}

The concept of the Dreaming is inadequately explained by English terms, and difficult to explain in terms of non-Aboriginal cultures. It has been described as "an all-embracing concept that provides rules for living, a moral code, as well as rules for interacting with the natural environment&nbsp;... [it] provides for a total, integrated way of life&nbsp;... a lived daily reality". It embraces past, present and future.{{sfn|Nicholls|2014a}} Another definition suggests that it represents "the relationship between people, plants, animals and the physical features of the land; the knowledge of how these relationships came to be, what they mean and how they need to be maintained in daily life and in [[Aboriginal Australian ceremony|ceremony]]".{{sfn|Central Art: Jukurrpa}} According to Simon Wright, "''jukurrpa'' has an expansive meaning for Warlpiri people, encompassing their own law and related cultural knowledge systems, along with what non-Indigenous people refer to as 'dreaming{{'"}}.{{sfn|QAGOMA Collection}}

A dreaming is often associated with a particular place, and may also belong to specific ages, gender or [[skin group]]s. Dreamings may be represented in artworks, for example "Pikilyi Jukurrpa" by Theo (Faye) Nangala represents the Dreaming of [[Pikilyi]] (Vaughan Springs) in the [[Northern Territory]], and belongs to the Japanangka/ Nanpanangka and Japangardi/ Napanangka skin groups.{{sfn|Catapult Design}}