Yhi
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Yhi” 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Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.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
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1426vers that at first the tribes were meant to live for ever. The women were told never to go near a certain hollow tree. The bees made a nest in this tree; the women coveted the honey, but the men forbade them to go near…
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1424ts wings. Of eclipses there are various accounts. Some say it is Yhi, the sun, the wanton woman, who has overtaken at last her enemy the moon, who scorned her love, and whom now she tries to kill, but the spirits interv…
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1422Another account says that Yhi, the sun, after many lovers, tried to ensnare Bahloo, the moon; but he would have none of her, and so she chases him across the sky, telling the spirits who stand round the sky holding it u…
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1421Of eclipses there are various accounts. Some say it is Yhi, the sun, the wanton woman, who has overtaken at last her enemy the moon, who scorned her love, and whom now she tries to kill, but the spirits intervene, dread…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2477leaxe shaped weapon. Willgoo willgoo, pointed stick with feathers on top. Wirree, small piece of bark, canoe-shaped. Wirreenun, priest or doctor. Womba, mad. Wondah, spirit or ghost. Wurranunnah, wild bees. Wurrawilbero…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2476they shall meet them again later on, when they are grown big. Then as Mayrah softly blows, the flowers one by one open, and the bees come out again to gather honey. Every bird wears his gayest plumage and sings his swee…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2475ems, you only are here, what did you with Beeargah my cousin, and where are my friends? Many are their trails that I see coming into this camp, but none going out. And if you alone live here you alone can answer me." "W…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2468blows until the land is one of plenty; then Yhi the sun chases her back whence she came, and the flowers droop and the birds sing only in the early morning. For Yhi rules in the land until the storms are over and have c…