alcheringa
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alcheringa¹
proper noun
- Alternative form of Alcheringa These ancestors are so intimately associated in the native mind with the animals or plants whose name they bore that an alcheringa man of, say the kangaroo totem, may be spoken of either as a man-kangaroo or as a kangaroo-man.
Alcheringa²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Eastern Arrernte.
proper noun alcheringa
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Synonym of Dreamtime.
Sometimes the spirit child which goes into a woman is associated with one of the sacred Churinga, numbers of which every Alcheringa individual carried about with him or her (for in those days the women were allowed to carry them just as the men were), and then, in this case, the child has no definit
Similar: Dreamtime
Talk about this word "alcheringa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/alcheringa. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. alcheringa. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/alcheringa "alcheringa." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/alcheringa.Cite this
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title = {alcheringa},
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