The Tsjurunga or Churinga Docs:Part 3 dreamtime, offered concept by Madrason

The Tsjurunga or Churinga Docs:Part 3 dreamtime, offered concept by Madrason

Dreamtime 1

Along with a host of others, you've left the camp, leaving behind the women and the uninitiated and all vestiges of the mundane, your spears and carrying bags, and your social names. You're on a solemn journey to your birth place. Single file, without a sound, you and the others walk in awe. Although it's not far into the desert, few ever visit without invitation.
Your group has arrived, and all immediately begin to clear the ground of the debris and stones that have accumulated since last you were here. The area of some twenty paces is laid smooth. Several go to a nearby rock outcropping and, from the cache, bring out with great care the churinga boards. Some are as long as an arm, most much shorter, all of wood, each richly carved with the signs of the clan ancestors and of their adventures. Sitting in a circle on the cleared earth, the churingas are passed to each of your group in turn. Each holds the oval-shaped boards close, rubbing them against himself.
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Ground Painting
of the Wallunqua (Snake) Totem
(Warramunga Tribe, 2 meters long)

The following illustrations are the reverse sides of a churinga board. The board is from the Aranda (an Australian Aborigine people) and represents the Frog spirit, an expression of the Alcheringa. The wood carving is 39 centimeters in length. On the churinga, the three prominent sets of concentric circles are the celebrated gum-tree at the sacred site near Hugh River. It is out of these
trees that the frog comes forth. On the first side (top), the double concentric circles are the bodies of small frogs having just emerged from the trees. The lines connecting them are their limbs. On the reverse side (bottom), the three gum-trees are again seen. The series of lines extending from them are their roots. The smaller concentric circles are less important gum-trees with their roots.The dots are the tracks of the frogs as they hop about in the sand of the river bed.

alcheringa [Arunta of Australia, alcheringa], n. 1. The Eternal Dream Time, The Dreaming of a sacred heroic time long ago when man and nature came to be, a kind of narrative of things that once happened. 2. A kind of charter of things that still happen. 3. A kind of logos or principle of order transcending everything significant. v. 1. The act of dreaming, as reality and symbol, by which the artist is inspired to produce a new song. 2. The act by which the mind makes contact with whatever mystery it is that connects the Dreaming and the Here-and-Now.

Tips; Spencer and Gillen:

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