Baiame in Initiation Ceremonies
Among the spectacular representations at the Burbung there is one in which the head medicine-man goes away for a time, and then returns dressed up in bunches and tufts of grass, saying that he had been for them to Baiame's camp.
- Record ID
- 1,301
- Year
- 1,904
- Source
- Wikisource
- Index status
- Public search-ready
This page records what a public source contains. It is not verification of the supernatural claim described by that source.
Record context
- Record ID
- 1301
- Source
- Wikisource
- Publication
- Native Tribes of South-East Australia; A. W. Howitt
- Published
- 1904
- Narrative type
- Descriptive Belief Records
- Public-text label
- Baiame
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- South-Eastern Australia: B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
Source-grounded excerpt
Among the spectacular representations at the Burbung there is one in which the head medicine-man goes away for a time, and then returns dressed up in bunches and tufts of grass, saying that he had been for them to Baiame's camp.
The excerpt is presented as public-source context. Terminology belongs to the cited source and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Browse this record
Related public records
- Baiame in Queensland, Australia#1781rigines can sound the letter. S, while a word ending in a liquid^ having indeed no consonants but liquids, is quite in accordance with the smooth sound of their usual speech; and because '< Immanuel" is a word which I c…
- Baiame in Queensland, Australia#1784. They speak of Him by the name " Baiame ; ** and those who have learnt that " Gk>d ** is the name by which we speak of the Creator, say that " Baiame is God." Some of them say that Baiame formerly appeared to their fat…
- Baiame in Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages#2063ii guinun Kolle bunnagella yarula Yerala nai a germa dhurali gurri TJerma nuriluna kamil ijaia TJerma wariijene Wolla ya ljurrilona TJa rjinda gullrdul Gun murruba ; wunna guma TJaia barabai daraoela Murruba inda 40 GTJ…
- Baiame in Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages#2064I. (Extracts from a Missionary Primer, prepared for the Kamilaroi-spcaTcinr/ People.) [ Verbatim translation.'] Baiame gir giwlr gimobi ; mal giwir God verily man made ; first man Adam. Adam. Baiame goe : " Kamil murrub…
- Baiame in Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages#2065f blackfellow, — father of buba kanugo ; Iva gumba murrigu, gumba whitefellow, — father of all. Eve mother wundagu, gumba kanugo. of blackfellow, — mother of whitefellow, — mother of all. Adam Iva ellibu warawara yanani…
- Baiame in Kámilarói, and Other Australian Languages#2066all women astray went ; all bad became. yanani; kanugo kagil ginyi. Baiame yili God angry became, said, "All men, all ginyi, goe, ""Kanugo giwir kanugo inar women astray went, all bad became ; I . warawara yanani, kanug…