- RECORD ID
- 3091
- FIGURE
- Byamee
- NARRATIVE
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- PRINTED LABEL
- Byamee
- PUBLICATION
- More Australian Legendary Tales; K. Langloh Parker
- AUTHOR
- Not specified
Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales — AusFigures public-text record
Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales
- YEAR
- 1898
- PLACE
- New South Wales
- SOURCE
- Internet Archive
o 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 or sacrifice. Religion is at this point, and is only just beginning to turn towards animism. Corpse-feeding is recent. In Mrs. Parker's book Byamee is implored to receive the soul of Eerin. '* For Eerin was faithful on earth, faithful to the laws you left us." The mourners ** let their blood drop into his grave," but such a sacrifice is not necessarily more than a tribute of affectionate regret. It need not imply.
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Open original public source- 01Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales1896 · Project Gutenberg
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- 03Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales1896 · Project Gutenberg
- 04Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales1896 · Project Gutenberg
- 05Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales1898 · Internet Archive
- 06Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales1898 · Internet Archive