Elizabeth Fabowale

Elizabeth Fabowale

A glowing riverbank symbolizing the creation of the first humans in Aboriginal Dreamtime tradition.

The First Man and Woman

In the long silence before time began, the world lay still beneath a dark sky. There was no voice, no song, no footstep upon the earth. The winds had not yet learned to move, and the rivers had not yet learned to flow. Only the great spirit ancestors drifted through
A small creature carrying fire to humans, inspired by the Aboriginal Dreamtime story The Discovery of Fire.

The Discovery of Fire

In the earliest days of the world, when the earth was still young and the trees whispered the names of the stars, humankind lived without fire. The nights were cold, and the people huddled together beneath animal skins, trembling as the wind swept across the plains. They ate their food
Baiame teaching the first people near a river, Dreamtime story from Australia.

Baiame and Man

After Baiame had shaped the mountains and the rivers, the plains and the forests, he looked upon the land and saw that it was alive but not yet wise. The trees stretched toward the sun, the birds called to one another in the wind, and the waters whispered over the

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Tiddalik the Thirsty Frog

In the Dreamtime, when animals still spoke the first language, the land woke to find no water anywhere. Rivers were empty, the
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