The Mythology Book

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A part from the landmass of Australia, Oceania is comprised of islands flung across more than 3 million square miles (8.5 millio ...

Edwin G. Burrows publishes his studies of the mythology of the people of the Ifaluk Atoll. Stanley Breeden and Belinda Wright’s ...

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304 D ating back to between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, Aboriginal Australians have the longest continuous cultural history of ...

305 The rock paintings of fish at Nanguluwur Rock Art Site at Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, were made during the est ...

306 she pledged to turn those who obeyed her into humans and those who did not into stone. The serpent kept her word and gave th ...

307 Mount Elephant, a landmark in the Goldfields region of Victoria, is said by the Tyakoort Wooroong people to be the body of a ...

308 L uma-Luma is one of many devious monsters that fill Aboriginal folklore. This version of his story, as told by Mangurug, a ...

OCEANIA 309 See also: The Dreaming 302–07 ■ Ta’aroa gives birth to the gods 316–17 ■ Tane and Hine-titama 318–19 behavior. In th ...

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312 I n the beginning there were two déma, or spirt beings: Nubog, the female Earth, and Dinadin, the male sky. Their children G ...

313 knife and cut the arms, legs, fingers, and toes free. The trimmings that he threw away became leeches, which are abundant in ...

314 Geb out and cleaned off the barnacles with digging sticks and stone axes. The men then sexually assaulted Geb and treated hi ...

315 sexually promiscuous ritual that formed part of the Mayo ritual. However, before the ceremony got underway, Ualiwamb ran awa ...

316 B efore the cosmos was created, there was just a blank void. Amid this expanse of nothingness floated a huge egg-shaped shel ...

OCEANIA 317 See also: Pan Gu and the creation of the world 214–15 ■ Viracocha the creator 256–57 ■ Tane and Hine-titama 318–19 T ...

318 I n Maori mythology, before the world was created, there was only Rangi, the sky father, and his wife, Papa, the earth mothe ...