The two rainbow serpents travelling : mura track narratives from the Corner Country /

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"The 'Corner Country', where Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales now converge, was in Aboriginal tradition crisscrossed by the tracks of the mura, ancestral beings, who named the country as they travelled, linking place to language. Reproduced here is the story of the two...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hercus, L. A. (Luise Anna), 1926-2018
Other Authors: Beckett, Jeremy, 1931-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2009.
Series:Aboriginal history monographs ; 18.
Subjects:
Rainbow serpent.
Aboriginal Australians > Religion.
Serpent Arc-en-ciel.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Religion.
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Aboriginal Australians > Religion
Rainbow serpent
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Mura stories as cultural links
  • General ceremonies gradually reiplacing the mura
  • Survival of the mura stories
  • The storytellers and their country
  • The Ngatyi in the mythology of the Corner Country
  • 2. The two rainbow serpents: original texts
  • George Dutton's version
  • Alf Barlow's version
  • Walter Newton's version
  • Comment / Hannah Quayle
  • Comments / Cecil Ebsworth
  • 3. Geographical names in the Two Ngatyi stories
  • Introduction
  • Discussion of the Placenames
  • Territorial conclusions from the study of the placenames.

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