| 单词 | ancestor being |
| 释义 | > as lemmasancestor being ancestor being n. Cultural Anthropology and Mythology (in the mythology of some Australian Aboriginal peoples) any of the beings associated with the creation of the earth in the dreamtime; = ancestral being n. (b) at ancestral adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1955 B. Dean & V. Carell Dust for Dancers xvii. 193 Some of the drawings on our private rock gallery were of ancestor beings, for they had a fairly crude..type of halo about the human form. 1999 Brit. Jrnl. Ethnomusicol. 8 107 Kujika were composed by the ancestor beings during the creative period of the Dreaming as they travelled across the land. 2002 B. Hill Broken Song iv. iv. 554 He..camped at the honey ant site..where the story recounts..how the honey ants emerged through the skin of the ancestor being, ‘like sweat drops from a man in the heat of a summer day’. < as lemmas |
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