Every Aboriginal person inherits their Dreamtime stories from their parents.  Dreamtime stories go back generations to the Creation time when the Creator Spirit swept across the countryside creating the plants and animals, wind and rain, also at that same time people were created and they were each given responsibility for various aspects of nature.   It may be a plant, an animal or an area.

These Dreamtime stories are the “blue-prints” for the way that the people live their lives and protected and nutured all living things on the land for future generations.  These stories are the law.   They tell about the way plants grow and animals live, where water and food can be found. 

We see titles of paintings relating to the Dreamtime  “Honey Ant Dreaming”, “Dingo Dreaming”,  “Barramundi Dreaming”, these creatures are the responsibility of the people who have learnt about them from their elders.  They are their sacred totems.