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Baiame in Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages

YEAR
1875
PLACE
Queensland
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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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
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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
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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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