alcheringa

Precisely the same fable occurs in Central Australian myths of the Alcheringa, or legendary past.

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.

The tribal stores of churinga are not the same as the places where churinga were dropped in the Alcheringa.

According to Arunta tradition, their ancestors in the Alcheringa were endogamous.