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alcheringa

/al-chuh-ring-guh/US // ˌæl tʃəˈrɪŋ gə //UK // (ˌæltʃəˈrɪŋɡə) //

阿尔切林加,阿尔切林嘎,阿尔切林格,阿尔切林卡

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : dreamtime.

Examples

  • Precisely the same fable occurs in Central Australian myths of the Alcheringa, or legendary past.

  • They are personages wholly comparable to those of the Alcheringa.

  • Each of these Alcheringa ancestors carried about with him or her one or more of the sacred stones called churinga.

  • The tribal stores of churinga are not the same as the places where churinga were dropped in the Alcheringa.

  • According to Arunta tradition, their ancestors in the Alcheringa were endogamous.