Baiame in Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages
tters occupying the part of the country where these names of Venus are used are some gentlemen of classical attainments ; and possibly the idea of the laughing goddess may have been suggested by them. Orion is called Berai-berai (a young man). This young man was said to have been "burul wlnunailun…
- Record ID
- 3,948
- Year
- 1,875
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 3948
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages; William Ridley
- Published
- 1875
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Baiame
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- New South Wales and Queensland (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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tters occupying the part of the country where these names of Venus are used are some gentlemen of classical attainments ; and possibly the idea of the laughing goddess may have been suggested by them. Orion is called Berai-berai (a young man). This young man was said to have been "burul wlnunailun miai-miai" (much thinking, or desirous of young women), when Baiame caught him up to the sky, near to the " miai-miai" (the Pleiades), whose beauty had attracted him. He has a boomerang in his hand, and a ghuliir (belt) round his waist. One of the miai-miai (the Pleiad which is barely visible) is supposed to hide behind the rest, on.
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