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There are approximately nine hundred Aboriginal nations within Australia and subsequently there is an enormous diversity in the way the Dreaming is expressed. Each Aboriginal nation has its own dialect, and since language is esoteric, each nation's understanding of Aboriginal spirituality will vary. In other words, language is critical for the Dreaming to be learnt and understood authentically. Another significant reason for the diverse expression of Aboriginal spirituality is that each Aboriginal nation has its own boundaries and subsequently different Dreaming stories, which are applicable to those boundaries. This also means that groups, which are geographically close to each other, will share some common elements. Overall, however, the belief in notion of the Dreaming is the overriding commonality, which binds different Aboriginal nations together.