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Updated: May 4, 2025
The Australian sacred object called churinga a thing of mysterious potency is believed to be the abode of the soul of an ancestor endowed with extraordinary power. Many such fetish objects are found all over the world. Life implies power; but while it is held to reside in all things, its manifestations vary according to the relations between things and human needs.
"Sacred things," not to be shown to man, still less to woman, date from the "medicine bag" of the Red Indian, the mystic tribal bundles of the Pawnees, and the churinga, and bark "native portmanteaux," of which Mr. Carnegie brought several from the Australian desert. For all Greek Mysteries a satisfactory savage analogy can be found.
For all that I know, a dweller in Dunbuie might have compasses, like the Lough Crew cairn artist. If I have established the parallelism between Arunta churinga nanja and the disputed Clyde "pendants," which Dr. Munro denies, we are reduced to one of two theories.
My private opinion as to the meaning of the archaic marks and the Clyde objects which bear them, has, in part by my own fault, been misunderstood by Dr. Munro. He bases an argument on the idea that I suppose the disputed "pendants" to have had, in Clydesdale, precisely the same legendary, customary, and magical significance as the stone churinga of the Arunta tribe in Australia.
The object was familiar to palaeolithic man. I have made it perfectly certain that magic stones, "witch stones," "charm stones," and that churinga irula, wooden magical slats of wood, exist in Australia and other savage regions, and survive, as magical, into modern British life.
No human being wears any churinga "as an ornament!" Nobody says that they do. Messrs. Spencer and Gillen, moreover, speak of "a long stone churinga," and of "especially large ones" made by the mythical first ancestors of the race.
You will tell him that you wish to see the Ertwa Oknurcha. 'Ah, Australian for "The Big Man," said Merton. 'I don't know what it means, said Miss Markham. 'Dr. Fogarty will then ask, "Have you the churinga?" The girl drew out a slim gold chain which hung round her neck and under her dress.
Munro, impugning the authenticity of one set of finds by Mr. Donnelly, in a pile-structure at Dumbuck, on the Clyde, near Dumbarton. I wrote to the Glasgow Herald, adducing the Australian churinga nanja as parallel to Mr. Donnelly's inscribed stones, and thus my share in the controversy began. What Dr. Munro and I then wrote may be passed over in this place. It was in July 1898, that Mr.
I was once entrusted with a charm stone used in the nineteenth century for the healing of cattle in the Highlands. An acquaintance of mine, a Mac by the mother's side, inherited this heirloom with the curious box patched with wicker-work, which was its Ark. It was exactly of the shape of a "stone churinga of the Arunta tribe," later reproduced by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen.
Munro now objects that among the objects reckoned by me as analogous to churinga is a perforated stone with an incised line, and smaller slanting side lines, said to have been found at Dumbuck; "9 inches long, 3.5 inches broad, and 0.5 an inch thick." I wish that he gave us the weight. He says, "that no human being would wear this as an ornament."
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