Byamee
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Byamee” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 24
- Public sources
- 3
- States / territories
- 1
- Dated span
- 1896–1905
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- Byamee in Spirit Stories#1450Hippi said a great deal more would have been spoken and sung at the grave if the dead person had been a man. His spirit would have in a short sort of prayer been commended to Byamee, who would have been intreated to let…
- Byamee in Spirit Stories#1449And Byamee was so pleased with her for always having food for the hungry that, when at length she died, he allowed her to revisit her old gahreemai, or camp, her spirit returning in the form of the little honey-eater bi…
- Byamee in Introductory Belief Context#1437eir south-east, but is clearly allied with it, many names of animals being the same in both tongues. A few names of animals are shared with the Wirádjuri speech, as Mullian, Eagle Hawk; Pelican, Goolayyahlee (Wirádjuri,…
- Byamee in Introductory Belief Context#1434Howitt is also the term used by the Wirádjuri and Kamilaroi, 'Baiame' or 'Byamee.' The Euahlayi, however, possess myths, beliefs, and usages not recorded as extant among the Kamilaroi, but rather forming a link with the…
- Byamee in Byamee and Social Organisation#1351If it is necessary to speak to them of Byamee, he is called Boyjerh, which means Father, just as in the Theddora tribe the women speak of Darramulun as Papang, 'Father.' Among the Euahlayi both women and the uninitiated…
- Byamee in Byamee and Social Organisation#1350Ridley translated our 'God' by 'Baiame.' He supposed that native term, which he found and did not introduce, to be a derivative from the verb baia, or biai, 'to make.' Literally, however, at least in Euahlayi, the word…
- Byamee in Byamee and Social Organisation#1349The name Byamee (usually spelled Baiame) occurs in Euahlayi, Kamilaroi, and Wirádjuri; 'the Wirádjuri language is spoken over a greater extent of territory than any other tongue in New South Wales.' The word occurs in t…
- Byamee in Byamee and Social Organisation#1348As throughout the chapters on the customary laws, mysteries, and legends of the Euahlayi, there occur frequent mentions of a superhuman though anthropomorphic being named Byamee (in Kamilaroi and Wirádjuri 'Baiame'), it…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3207the sound of the name "Byamee," EarmoonSn jumped away, saying as he went : " Phur-r, phur-r." He quickly disappeared, going back to the sand-ridges under which Wurrunnah had heard he and the rest of the strange litter l…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3206Again came only the spluttering, whizzing noise, a sort of pursing of the lips together, and blowing out a sound like " Phur-r, phur-r." ** Is it true that he has gone for ever ? " " Phur-r, phur-r," came again the answ…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3205be Earmoonan, one of the pups of the dog Byamee left at Noondoo that I have heard of." t He called out to it, " Where is your old master ? " for he thought he would find out if the strange creature knew where Byamee was…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3204whirring, whizzing noise with its lips. " What is this coming to water ? " said Wurrunnah to himself. When the creature was close, he said : " It must be Earmoonan, one of the pups of the dog Byamee left at Noondoo that…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3203e creature coming towards him, having the body and head of a dog, feet of a woman, and a short tail. It bounded four or five feet in the air as it came along, making a whirring, whizzing noise with its lips. " What is t…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3202tency between my notion of a kind of early theism, and my belief that many of the absurdities of mythology are the result, and (in civilisation) the survival, of the savage intellectual condition. Odd stories enough abo…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3201humorous, telling stories for pleasure about Byamee or Durumulun, whom he now envisages, not as Father and Judge, but very much as a black fellow like himself. Grant such a black fellow unlimited power, and he will frol…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3200evidence of Mr. Howitt, an initiate, that religion and mythology represent quite different moods of men. In religion, the Australian is serious, and will not mention " The Master " except at the solemn mysteries. In myt…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3092m which is not yet a religion of service and propitiation of ancestors. This helps my argument (that theism is not the latest flower of animism) very well, and Mr. Dawson (as far as his evidence attests) has no theory t…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3091o be otiose. Byamee sits like Keats's *' Grey-hair 'd Saturn quiet as a stone ; " and Pirnmeheal is seldom mentioned. Elsewhere Durumulun is served in the secret rites of the mysteries ; none of these gods receive food…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3090BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. fV/T/f ILLUSTRATIONS BY A NATIVE ARTIST LONDON DAVID NUTT, 270-271, STRAND MELBOURNE MELVILLE, MULLEN & SLADE 1898 27 1 IS, i^H-, ^ y'.-.o coi.7;^ IAN 5 1899 £brarS )J I -'^y.' '- ■■ ^^" : V. , ^' "…
- Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales#3086; what he had seen became a tradition in his tribe. He had broken the law of Byamee by leaving his own hunting ground, so was not allowed to live long after his return. But yet so famous was he from his far journeyings…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#2450ed and swallowed by two kurreahs. Having swallowed the girls, the kurreahs dived into an opening in the side of the spring, which was the entrance to an underground watercourse leading to the Narran River. Through this…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#2449nd yam sticks, went out as he told them. Having gone far, and dug out many yams and frogs, they were tired when they reached Coorigel, and, seeing the cool, fresh water, they longed to bathe. But first they built a boug…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#2448, and now they hated them, and they said, "If we could get them away from Bahloo we would kill them." And thenceforth, whenever they saw a snake alone they killed it. But Babloo only sent more, for he said, "As long as…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#244717 GOOMBLEGUBBON, BEEARGAII, AND OUYAN 18 MOOREGOO THE MOPOKE, AND BAHLOO THE MOON 19 OUYAN THE CURLEW 20 DINEWAN THE EMU, AND WAHN THE CROWS 21 GOOLAHWILLEEL THE TOPKNOT PIGEONS 22 GOONUR, THE WOMAN-DOCTOR 23 DEEREEREE…