The Two Rainbow Serpents travelling
Mura track narratives from the 'Corner Country'
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Contributions
- Hercus, Luise - Contributor
Publication
2009 - ANU Press, Canberra
Word Count
23,250 words, Guess
Page Count
93 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10459747
- ISBN-13459747
- Open LibraryOL31370260M
Description
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 Ngatyi, Rainbow Serpents, who travelled from the Paroo to the Flinders Ranges and back as far as Yancannia Creek, where their deep underground channels linked them back to the Paroo. Jeremy Beckett recorded these stories from George Dutton and Alf Barlow in 1957. Luise Hercus, who has worked on the languages in the area for many years, has collaborated with Jeremy Beckett to analyse the names and identify the places.
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