Alcheringa is a 10 letter English word.
You can make 735 anagrams from letters in alcheringa (aaceghilnr).
First recorded in 1895-1900, alcheringa is from the Aranda word aljerreŋe
In other words, a being of the alcheringa never has more than one representative among the living.
The tribal stores of churinga are not the same as the places where churinga were dropped in the alcheringa.
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.
Yet they are distinguished by special characteristics from their confrères, the heroes of the alcheringa.
It is true that Spencer and Gillen add that these are ancestors posterior to the alcheringa.
So really the alcheringa ancestor is entire in each part of himself which becomes a ratapa.
In the alcheringa times, the Wollunqua traversed the country in every direction.
Now, among the Arunta the blacks of to-day are regarded as reincarnations of the alcheringa fabulous ancestors.
The evidence of the Arunta legends as to the customs of the alcheringa, or 'dreamtime,' is 'such stuff as dreams are made of.'
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