"Tjukurpa has been translated as 'Dreaming' or 'Dreamtime'. This is inadequate, as Tjukurpa does not refer to dreaming in a conventional western sense; it is not unreal or imaginary. Tjukurpa is the traditional Law that explains existence and guides daily life. Tjukurpa is existence itself, in the past, present and future." "Information sheet prepared by Anangu, the traditional owners of Uluru, Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia" You are allowed to quote small passages in quotation marks if you add the credit lines. For more information on Tjukurpa click the link below:
Tjukurpa

The Dreaming; this is the more correct term for what most white Australians and Europeans refer to as "The Dreamtime".
The term refers to the concept which totally envelopes the important cultural aspects of Aboriginal Society. Everything from creation, history, ancestry, folklore, laws, rituals, ceremonies, culture and philosophy is covered in the dreaming, and stories have been passed from generation to generation to explain these many concepts.
The aborigines used dance, song, drawings, rituals and storytelling to pass on their myths and legends. These stories go back to explain how the spiritual forces caused their ancestors to form, how the journeys of these ancestors formed geological formations. The ancestors formed pathways and riverbeds where they walked, they formed trees by plunging sticks into the ground, and hills were formed where they died and their bodies fell. Different tribes had different stories about their existence. They had explanations of how constellations were formed, and what these star patterns represent.
The Dreaming also tells about the sacred sites that are still important today to certain tribes. Different areas are sacred to different tribes, and sometimes for very different reasons. For example, Uluru is considered a sacred site by all the tribes who live or pass through the area on their spiritual treks. To one tribe, the whole rock is sacred, while to another, it is only a small landmark on the rock which holds significance in the Dreaming.
Stories of the Dreaming often gave examples of how the people of a tribe were expected to behave as a community, and in their responsibility towards each other. It gave them their laws and punishments. In some ways this can be equated to the many stories of "The Bible".
The dreaming even affected the diets of some tribes. If, for example a tribe believed that the spirit of their ancestors resided in the goanna, those members of the tribe were not permitted to eat goanna.
In Aboriginal Politics, the Dreaming was used as a way of establishing Native Title to land. Claims were made based on the stories of the ancestors and showed the tribe's connection to the land. Dreaming stories could only be passed on to those in a tribe who had a right to be taught.
The Dreaming brings together the past and the present, and yet it also blurs the distinction between the two. The Dreaming is more than myth and legend, it is a whole encompassing philosophy of existence for the Aboriginal people.