What distinguishes the tribal imagination from the secular imagination?

The tribal imagination, unlike the secular imagination, is dreamlike and hallucinatory. It admits fusion between various planes of existence and levels of time in a natural way. In tribal stories, oceans fly in the sky as birds, mountains swim in the water as fish, animals speak as humans and

stars grow like plants, which is highly unlike the secular imagination. Spatial order and temporal sequence do not restrict the narrative in the tribal imagination.