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alcheringa

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al⋅che⋅rin⋅ga

  [al-chuh-ring-guh]
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–noun
dreamtime.
Origin:
1895–1900; < Aranda aljerreŋe

dream⋅time

  [dreem-tahym]
–noun
the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
Also called alcheringa, the dreaming.

Origin:
1905–10; dream + time
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