Definitions for churinga

churinga chu·rin·ga

Spelling: [choo-ring-guh]
IPA: /tʃʊˈrɪŋ gə/

Churinga is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 253 anagrams from letters in churinga (acghinru).

Definitions for churinga

noun

  1. an object carved from wood or stone by Aboriginal tribes in central Australia and held by them to be sacred.

Origin of churinga

First recorded in 1895-1900, churinga is from the Aranda word jwerreŋe

Examples for churinga

(churinga merely means anything “sacred,” that is, with a superstitious sense attached to it).

These churinga are of various sizes, down to a foot or less in length.

He made a sketch of this object, from p. 24memory: if found in Central Australia it would have been reckoned a churinga nanja.

Among the Kaitish thunder is caused by the churinga of their “sky dweller,” Atnatu.

Meanwhile most churinga, and many of the disputed objects, have archaic markings, which also occur on rock faces.

Women may not go near these sacred stores, nor may they see a churinga.

They are: but I was speaking of Australian churinga nanja, of stone.

All these churinga are kept at sacred central stores, caves, or crevices.

A man's churinga is not, to him, like the egg in which was the life of the giant in the fairy tale.

They also occur on wooden slats, (churinga irula,) commonly styled “Bull roarers” by Europeans.

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