The Dreamtime Dreamers: the Myth, the Dream, the Center in the Australian and Native American tradition

Myth is the collective dream of a people: The Dream as a way to return to the Center. Lucubrations on "Dream Time" (Dreamtime) of the sacred tradition of Australian Aborigines and Native Americans, starting the speech from the film The last wave by Peter Weir.

β€œPicnic at Hanging Rock”: an Apollonian allegory

Our analysis of Peter Weir's cult film, making use of the interpretative tools of the anthropology of the Sacred, in particular: the Sacred as "Totally Other" according to Rudolf Otto; the "breaking of level", the "suspension of time" and the theme of access to the Other World by Mircea Eliade; Apollonian symbolism according to the studies of Giorgio Colli.