Thanks for the link man. Yeah he mentions serpents briefly. Im sure if we approached an anthropologist on the matter we'd be laughed at. Aboriginal mythology is a nice glimpse into a time where our species was deeply implicated in its environment. Where stories and song describe the landscape and flora and fauna. It's just a wild guess but I'd say this form of description and language was around for a very long time, preceding the domestication of fire and tool use. Where extraspecies communication was achieved if not - the illusion of it was there.

The dreamtime was a time before deeper thought and contemplation, where the cognitive modus operandi was instinctual and animalistic. But what was important for group survival was told through narrative and song. If a particular song was sung in conjunction with and action such as turtle fishing - to the apprentice observer these two things are inseparable - The song and action cannot exist without each other. Like a dance I guess.

Anyway I've hijacked this thread enough with my nonsense.