autochthonic

Yet he impressed on all he said, on good words and bad alike, a marked autochthonic quality, as of the self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring.

What is the derivation and signification of aboriginal? autochthonic? primeval?

You will certainly not adopt Niebuhr's autochthonic theory, where such facts lie before you.

The dance is the primordial, autochthonic form of music; its foundation so to speak.

Or was it original and autochthonic, independent, in its inception, of any external influences, and unconnected with any other institution?