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supernatural being in Initiation Ceremonies

YEAR
1904
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supernatural being in Initiation Ceremonies

o the ground, which represents the path from the sky to the earth, and they cut on the ground the figure of Daramulun, who is not the Supernatural Being of the Yuin beliefs, but the "boy," or son, of Baiame. He is always represented as having only one leg, the other terminating in a sharp point of…

Record ID
1,316
Year
1,904
Source
Wikisource
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Record ID
1316
Source
Wikisource
Publication
Native Tribes of South-East Australia; A. W. Howitt
Published
1904
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
supernatural being
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
South-Eastern Australia: B
Source voice
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o the ground, which represents the path from the sky to the earth, and they cut on the ground the figure of Daramulun, who is not the Supernatural Being of the Yuin beliefs, but the "boy," or son, of Baiame. He is always represented as having only one leg, the other terminating in a sharp point of bone. There is also figured on the ground the tomahawk which Daramulun let fall as he slipped down from the tree before mentioned to the ground; then two footprints of an emu a little distance from each other, made when trying to escape from Daramulun. ​Finally there is the figure of the emu where it fell when he killed it. At each of.

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