This writer fell into the mistake of regarding the Mura-Mura (Mooramoora) as a Good-Spirit instead of as one of the mythical but more or less human predecessors of the Dieri in the country.
Yet another Dieri tradition sets forth how the Mura-Mura produced the race of man out of a species of small black lizards, which may still be met with under dry bark.
Singing and dancing-girls and prostitutes shall not be allowed to remain a single night in the mura [village].
When a stranger comes to reside here, enquiries shall be made as to the mura whence he came, and a surety shall be furnished by him .
After ceremonies magical, or more prayers in sign-language, the Mura Mura 'at once cause clouds to appear in the sky.
None the less they 'call upon the spirits of their remote ancestors, which they call Mura Mura, to grant them power to make a heavy rain.
The case of the Mura Mura of the Australian Dieri has met us already, in the essay on 'Magic and Religion.
Mura slipped an arm around her shoulders and looked down at her impishly.
Of course," Mura crowed as he swept her into his downy arms and danced her about among the robot perches.
Mura ruffled himself up and sprang at her so convincingly that she shrieked.
Frank whispered to Case, well knowing what was in the disturbed mind of his companion in captivity, “that is a Mura Indian, ornamented according to an ancient custom of his people.
Whether there be such a singular form of Mura-Mura in Dieri, with the sense of deity, I know not.
Later, Mr. Howitt learned that "in the plural form Mura-Mura means the deceased ancestors themselves.
A miyatsuko had administered the affairs of the kuni, holding the office by hereditary right, and the agata of which there were about 590, a frequently changing total as well as the inaki and the mura had been under officials called nushi.
Lorenzo fuori le Mura are the five Patriarchal churches, to one or other of which all believers throughout the world are supposed to belong.
One of the duties of a tenant in mura at a temple is to supply a basket of flowers morning and evening for offering in front of the image of Buddha or in front of the shrine.
In some mura the tenant receives food, in the others not.
As his uncles are so much to blame they are keeping him back, thinking that they cannot receive the mercy that Raxa Mura will, on account of their treacheries; and that, if he came, they would be lost.
I am negotiating a marriage between Raxa Mura and the sister of Xlunao, who is the chief of this village of Tanpaca.
But it is enough that Raxa Mura should be friendly, wherefore Captain Juan Pacho is under orders to carry on this negotiation through the mother.
Early on the following morning one of the Maeda mura batteries re-opened fire on the squadron anchored off Tanoura, but was replied to with such effect that it was speedily silenced, and the barrack behind was set on fire.
The task assigned to Captain Alexander's party was to scale a bluff immediately to the east of the Maeda mura batteries, and take a one-gun battery.
A fire now burst out among the buildings in the Maeda mura batteries and a magazine exploded, making the third "blow-up" during the afternoon.
After the signal to discontinue firing had been made, Kingston of the "Perseus" and De Casembroot of the "Medusa" landed and spiked fourteen guns in the Maeda mura batteries.
Krishna forced his passage through all obstacles and had a fight with Mura whom he slew with his Chakra.
That town was well fortified and it was protected by the Daitya Mura and his meshes.
Paola fuori le Mura being among the finest still preserved, that may be said to have anticipated the beautiful ambulatories of later monastic and collegiate buildings.
Among the Dieri there is also a Mura-mura whose function is to produce rain (Howitt, Nat.
If a supreme god named Mura-mura has existed among the Dieri, the very word is significant, for it serves to designate the class of the ancestors.
See the case of a Mura-mura who is considered the spirit of certain hot springs, in Howitt, Nat.
It is undoubtedly to this supreme Mura-mura that Gason makes allusion in the passage already cited (Curr, II, p.
A Mura-mura named Minkani is thought to live under a dune.
This is the case in which the Dieri, according to Jason, invoke the Mura-mura of water during a drought.
A few of the legends relate that the Mura-mura also created the totem animals, or transformed themselves into the latter.
These Mura-mura are fanciful beings of an earlier age, who are represented as having transmitted magical implements to the generations of the present era and as having instructed the ancestors of the Australians in magical ceremonies.
Mura-mura is the name that occurs especially in Southern Australia; the term, Alcheringa, prevails in the north, where the age of these mythical ancestors is often directly referred to as the Alcheringa age.
In the meantime neither Muranor Kosti appeared to suffer.
Mura stoppered the flask and put the cat down on the floor.
But a moment later Sinbad streaked in from the corridor and committed the unpardonable sin of leaping to the table top just before Mura who had taken the flask from Dane.
One of the Terran mints--an herb," Mura gave a short explanation as he moved down the aisle toward the alien.
Mura grows it for Sinbad--has quite a marked influence on cats.
Tau had his magic, Mura not only his plants but the delicate miniature landscapes he fashioned, to be imprisoned forever in the hearts of protecting plasta balls.
As far as Tau had been able to discover Mura and Kosti had nothing much in common except that they were crewmates on the same spacer.
Tau had the floor with Mura as an efficient lieutenant.
Fed the semi-liquid diet prescribed by Tau and served up by Mura to him and his fellow sufferers, he speedily got back his strength.
But he andMura had been with the youngster every minute that he had been in the hydro.
Mura did not even nod, but squeezed by the Salarik and pressed the lock.
One of them was situated in a charming spot, with a broad sandy beach before it, at the entrance to the Parana-mirim do Mucambo, a channel leading to an interior lake, peopled by savages of the Mura tribe.
We left this place on the 8th of January, and on the afternoon of the 9th, arrived at Matari, a miserable little settlement of Mura Indians.
The table was always well supplied with fish, which the Mura who was attached to the household as fisherman caught every morning a few hundred yards from the port.
Footnote 15: The Mura Mura appear really to answer to the fabled ancestors of the Arunta, but are addressed in prayers.
The Prince of Ōmura had the town laid out in appropriate streets, and Christian churches were built often on the sites of Buddhist temples which were torn down to give place for them.
The Prince of Ōmura became a convert and by his zeal in the destruction of idols and other extreme measures aroused the hostility of the Buddhist priesthood.
Satsuma campaign, Nagasaki had been taken from the prince of Ōmura and made a government city, to be controlled by a governor appointed immediately from Kyōto.
The princes of Ōmura and Arima, and to a certain extent the princes of Bungo, followed the advice of the Jesuit fathers in using their authority to advance the cause of Christianity.
Our village lies on the river Shamli at the foot of the Panch-mura hills.
After receiving this hint, the Mura had surrendered; and the after commotion was caused by his being towed through the water by a captor who was required to use all his strength and energy in supporting him.
Stay a minute, patron," replied the tapuyo, as he stood up in the igarite and gazed over the water in the direction of the Mura village.
Its crew were Mura savages, guided to their place of concealment by him who had stolen away.
The Mundurucu and his young companion, having paddled their craft out of the little creek, turned its head towards the Mura village.
Here Munday exhibited his shining blade, which caused the Mura captive to tremble all over, thinking that his time was come.
One arm of the Mura was clutched by the Mundurucu, as if the captive was partly supported while being dragged along.
How long might the Mura be away before his absence should excite suspicion and lead to a search?
No wonder, then, that our adventurers took particular pains to keep their captive along with them, since a sure result of his escape would be that they would furnish a feast for the Mura village.
Once upon the dead-wood, a more abject wretch than the captive Muracould not have been found.
The canoe, out of which the Mura had been so unceremoniously spilled, and which was now bottom upwards, was drifting outward.
Then, assisted by Munday in the water and Mozey upon the log, the Mura was hoisted aboard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mura" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
