ai-il-pilla

The name given to a rock or tree or other object with which the ancestral spirit is specially associated or is inhabited by it. It is the equivalent of the nanja tree or rock of the Arrernte and the whathilli of the Urabunna.

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References

Source

  • Spencer, Sir Baldwin. (1904). Northern Tribes of Central Australia. London: Macmillan, pp. 284, 745.