Wurrunnah
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Wurrunnah” 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
- 8
- Public sources
- 2
- 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Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.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
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1425, and when you see that he has turned round as the position of the Milky Way is altered, you may expect rain; he never moves except to make it. A waving dark shadow that you will see along the same course is Kurreah, th…
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1423Across the creek is another very old tree, having one hollow part in which is said to be secreted a shell which old Wurrunnah, the traveller of the tribes, and the first to see the sea, brought back. No one would dare t…
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1376Men had desired all the sisters when once they travelled on earth, but they kept themselves unspotted from the world, with the exception of the two Wurrunnah captured by stratagem.
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1375The Pleiades are seven sisters, as usual, the dimmed ones having been dulled because on earth Wurrunnah seized them and tried to melt the crystal off them at a fire; for, beautiful as they were with their long hair, the…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2481runnah to see a stranger having no eyes, yet turning his face towards him as if seeing him all the time. But he determined not to show his fear, but go straight on towards him, which he did. When he came up to him, the…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2480new people in a new country. After he had gone some distance, he saw, a long way off, an old man chopping out bees' nests. The old man turned his face towards Wurrunnah, and watched him coming, but when Wurrunnah came c…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2479rage and he said, "I will go to a far country and live with strangers; my own people would starve me." And while he was yet hot and angry, he went. Gathering up his weapons, he strode forth to find a new people in a new…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2478hu, Doongarah." So long and so fierce was the storm that the young men must have perished had they not been changed into birds. First they were changed into birds and afterwards into stars in the sky, where they now are…