Baiame's journeys across southeastern Australia during the Dreamtime created songlines that encode his laws and mark the sacred sites where he rested, taught, and performed ceremonies.
Bunjil's travels through Kulin country during the Dreamtime created songlines that map the sacred geography of central Victoria, encoding creation narratives and ceremonial law across the landscape.
The Djanggawul siblings created songlines across Arnhem Land as they traveled from the island of the dead, establishing sacred sites and planting sacred objects that marked their dreaming tracks.
The Kungkarangkalpa created one of the longest songlines on the continent as they fled across the Western Desert, their journey tracing a dreaming track from Martu country through the Gibson Desert to the coast of South Australia.
The Rainbow Serpent carved major songlines as it traveled across Australia during the Dreamtime, shaping waterways and landscape features that became some of the continent's most significant dreaming tracks.
The Wanjina spirits created songlines across the Kimberley as they traveled during the Dreamtime. The routes each Wanjina walked became dreaming tracks encoding creation narratives, territorial boundaries, and sacred law.
Barnumbirr traced the first songlines across the sky as she flew from east to west during the Dreamtime, naming country and sacred sites along her path from Bralgu to the horizon.
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