Aboriginal Myths, Legends & Fables

Introduction 10(15) PART ONE---MYTHS 15(134) The Great Father 17(50) Baiame 19(1) Baiame and the First Man and Woman 20(2) Baiame and the Bullroarer 22(3) Baiame and Man 25(4) Baiame and Marmoo 29(4) Baiame and the Bora Ceremony 33(3) Baiame and the Flying Grinding Stones 36(2) The Wives of Baiame 38(3) Baiame the Benefactor 41(5) The Making of Mankind 46(1) Baiame, Punjel, and Kookaburra 47(4) Bunjil 51(1) Bunjil the Creator 52(3) Bunjil and his People 55(2) Nurunderi 57(10) Totemic Ancestors 67(26) Formation of Landscapes 69(1) The Tnatantja Pole 69(3) Karora the bandicoot Ancestor 72(4) Three Brothers 76(1) The Ancestor with Six Sons 77(2) The Rainbow Snake 79(2) Taipan 81(4) The Rainbow Snake and the Orphan 85(1) Julunggul 86(1) The Pursuit of Purra 87(6) Creation Myths 93(56) The First Men and women 96(5) The Death of Man 101(7) River and Sea 108(9) The Frilled Lizard 117(2) Sun, Moon, and Stars 119(11) The Insect Tribe 130(8) The Bird Tribe 138(7) The Discovery of Fire 145(4) PART TWO---LEGENDS 149(136) Reptile People 151(20) The Snake People of Ayers Rock 152(2) Snakes and Turtles 154(3) Death to the Giant Snake 157(4) Goanna Makes a Canoe 161(1) Goannas and Porcupines 162(4) The Lizard who Came from Nowhere 166(2) The Meat Ants and the Fire 168(3) Frog People 171(8) The Timid Frogs 172(3) The Everlasting Frogs 175(4) Tree People 179(13) Koala and the Rainbow 179(3) Why Koala has no Tail 182(4) Man into Possum 186(3) Red and Black Flying-foxes 189(3) Animal People 192(13) The Legs of the Kangaroo 193(1) The Mice Women who Turned into Dingoes 194(3) The Two Dogs 197(1) Water-rat and Fire 198(4) Echidna's Spines 202(3) Flower People 205(6) Coral Creeper 206(3) The Flower Child 209(2) Crocodile People 211(18) Pikuwa and his Wives 211(1) The Sad Fate of Pikuwa 212 The Pursuit of Numeuk the Hunter 116(113) Star People 229(21) Sky-raising Magpies 229(2) Dinosaurs of the Sky 231(2) The Seven Sisters 233(4) The Hunter who Threw Stars 237(2) Wurrunna and the Seven Sisters 239(5) The Milky Way 244(2) Moon and Morning Star 246(4) Crow People 250(35) Leaving Home 250(6) The Gift of Fire 256(2) The Medicine-Man 258(3) The Eagle-hawk 261(4) The Pelican Babies 265(4) The Singing Frog 269(4) Eagle-hawk Again 273(3) The Black Swans 276(4) The Moon God 280(1) How Wahn Became a Star 281(4) PART THREE---FABLES 285(125) The Adventures of Yooneeara 287(3) The Anger of Pund-jil 290(1) Baiame's Gift of Manna 291(1) Bees and Honey 292(1) Black Paint and Red Ochre 293(2) The Cannibal Woman 295(2) The Case of the Moth 297(1) The Coming of Death 298(1) The Coming of Spring 299(1) Dingo and Native Cat 300(2) The Dogs That Were Really Snakes 302(1) The Dugong, the Cockatoos, and the Chicken Hawk 303(2) The Fate of Mocking Bird 305(2) A Fight with a Kurrea 307(1) The First Bullroarer 308(3) The First Man in the Southern Cross 311(2) Fish Hawk and Lyrebird 313(1) Fish Moon 314(2) The Flies and the Bees 316(2) The Flight of the Bandicoot 318(1) The Frog and the Flies 319(3) The Frog Food of the Bunyip 322(3) The Frogs at Flood Time 325(1) The Frog, the Wallaby, and the Dugong 326(2) The Gifts of the Sun Goddess 328(1) Goanna and His Stripes 329(2) The Great Flood 331(1) The Hero Who Changed into a Mountain 332(3) How Animals Came to Australia 335(2) How Bats and Shags Were Made 337(2) How Black Snake Became Poisonous 339(2) How Blue Heron Brings in the Tide 341(2) How Platypus was Born 343(2) How the Murray River was Made 345(1) How Possum and Cat Killed Kangaroo 346(1) How Tortoise got a Swollen Back 347(1) How Tortoise Lost His Tail 348(2) How Tortoise Got His Shell 350(2) How the Waratah was Made 352(3) How the Waratah Became Sweet 355(3) How Tree-runner Made a Rainbow for His Wife 358(1) Kangaroo and Emu 359(2) The Kangaroo Dance 361(2) Koala and Bunyip 363(2) Kulai and Culma 365(1) The Last Song of Priepriggie 366(3) Laughing Jackass and the Sun Fire 369(2) The Miserable Mopoke 371(1) The Moon's Reward 372(3) The Oyster Brothers and the Shark 375(2) Rainbow Into Fish Into Mountain 377(1) The Rainbow Snake 378(2) The Rainbow Snakes 380(1) The Rebellious Son of Baiame 381(2) The Red Cloud 383(1) Rolla-mano and the Stars 384(2) The Sandpiper's Misfortune 386(1) The Sculptor 387(2) The Shaming of Rainbow Snake 389(3) The Son of Mount Gambier 392(2) The Song of the Tree Frogs 394(1) The Spear with the Stingray Spines 395(2) Spiny Lizard and Galah Bird 397(2) Sun, Moon, and the Spirit of Birth 399(1) Suns, Moons, and Stars 400(1) Turtle, Oyster, and Whale 401(1) Why Curlew Cries Plaintively at Night 402(2) The Winds 404(1) The Woman Who Changed Into a Kangaroo 405(2) The Wooden Devil-devil 407(3) Yara-ma-yha-who 410