During the interval between two re-incarnations the souls live in their nanja spots, or local totem-centres, which are always natural objects such as trees or rocks.
A large number of prominent rocks and boulders, and certain ancient gum trees, are the nanja trees and rocks of these spirits.
Mr. Arthur Bernard Cook suggests that the pebbles of Mas d'Azil may correspond to the stone churingananja of the Arunta; a few of which appear to be painted, not incised.
If I have established the parallelism between Arunta churinga nanja and the disputed Clyde "pendants," which Dr.
In fact, according to their own statement, a soul equal or even superior in power to the one that is incarnated continues to live in the nanja tree or rock (see Nat.
In other words, the personality of the ancestor, his churinga and his nanja tree, are sacred things, inspiring the same sentiments and to which the same religious value is attributed.
The nanja tree where the spirit of an ancestor lives is sacred for the individual who considers himself the reincarnation of this ancestor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nanja" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
