| 单词 |
alcheringa |
| 释义 |
alcheringa|æltʃəˈrɪŋgə|
Also ˈalchera, ˈaltjira, A-.
[Austral. Aboriginal, lit. = ‘dream-time’.]
In the mythology of some Australian Aboriginal peoples, the ‘golden age’ when the first ancestors were created.
1899Spencer & Gillen Nat. Tribes Central Australia ix. 324 ‘It was so in the Alcheringa,’ was considered as perfectly satisfactory by way of explanation. 1910Encycl. Brit. X. 162/2 The Arunta believe that the souls of the primal semi-bestial ancestors of the Alcheringa or ‘dream time’ are perpetually reincarnated. 1939S. Dell tr. Jung's Integr. Personality (1941) iii. 92 The palæolithic Australians..identify themselves..with their ancestors of the so-called alcheringa period. 1959S. H. Courtier Death in Dream Time iv. 43 Alchera..is the name given by Central Australian tribes to the time when the world was being made. Ibid., The natives..who had learned the white man's tongue found the word dream to come nearest to what they meant by Alchera. 1965W. E. H. Stanner in R. & C. Berndt Aborig. Man in Austral. 214 A full understanding of the Aboriginal view of life and the world requires a careful study of the whole body of doctrine about the Dream Time (altjira, bugari). |
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