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Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales

YEAR
1898
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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Byamee in More Australian Legendary Tales

humorous, telling stories for pleasure about Byamee or Durumulun, whom he now envisages, not as Father and Judge, but very much as a black fellow like himself. Grant such a black fellow unlimited power, and he will frolic as in the Australian and other mythologies. Con- sider him as the maker and l…

Record ID
3,201
Year
1,898
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
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Record ID
3201
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
More Australian Legendary Tales; K. Langloh Parker
Published
1898 public-domain folklore collection exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
Byamee
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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humorous, telling stories for pleasure about Byamee or Durumulun, whom he now envisages, not as Father and Judge, but very much as a black fellow like himself. Grant such a black fellow unlimited power, and he will frolic as in the Australian and other mythologies. Con- sider him as the maker and lawgiver, the all-seeing witness and rewarder of conduct, and Byamee or Durumulun is no longer the wanton, gigantic wirreenun; rather is he God. I am unable to see any inconsistency between my notion of a kind of early theism, and my belief that many of the absurdities of mythology are the result, and (in civilisation) the survival, of.

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