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- Title: Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
- Author : W. Ramsay Smith
- Release Date : January 01, 2015
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 692 KB
Description
This classic resource is organized as follows:
Chapter I: Origins
The Customs and Traditions of Aboriginals
The Story of the Creation
The Coming of Mankind
The Peewee’s Story
The Eagle-hawk and the Crow
The Birth of the Butterflies
The Confusion of Tongues
The Discovery and the Loss of the Secret of Fire
The Moon
The Wonderful Lizard
The Lazy Goannas and what happened to them
How the Selfish Goannas lost their Wives
What some Aboriginal Carvings mean
Chapter II: Animal Myths
The Selfish Owl
Why Frogs jump into the Water
This is the legend of the frogs.
Kinie Ger, the Native Cat
The Porcupine and the Mountain Devil
The Green Frog
How the Tortoise got his Shell
The Mischievous Crow and the Good he did
Whowie
The Flood and its Results
How Spencer’s Gulf came into Existence
Chapter III: Religion
The Belief in a Great Spirit
The Land of Perfection
The Voice of the Great Spirit
Witchcraft
Chapter IV: Social
Marriage Customs
The Spirit of Help among the Aboriginals
Ngia Ngiampe
Hunting
Fishing
Sport
Chapter V: Personal Myths
Kirkin and Wyju
The Love-story of the Two Sisters
Cheeroonear
The Keen Keeng
Mr and Mrs Newal and their Dog
Thardid Jimbo
Palpinkalare
Perindi and Harrimiah
Bulpallungga
Nurunderi's Wives
Chirr-bookie, the Blue Crane
Buthera and the Bat
Yara-ma-yha-who
The Origin of the Pleiades
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