Note 809 — Chapter VIII · THE IDEA OF THE SOUL
Joseph Ward Swain translation
II, pp. 76, 81. According to Spencer and Gillen, the churinga is not the soul of the ancestor, but the object in which his soul resides. At bottom, these two mythological interpretations are identical, and it is easy to see how one has been able to pass into the other: the body is the place where the soul resides.