The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim

[970] L. Parker, More Austr. Leg. Tales, p. 94.

[971] Brough Smyth, I, pp. 425-427.

[972] Taplin, ibid., p. 60.

[973] Taplin, ibid., p. 61.

[974] "The world was created by beings called Nuralie; these beings, who had already long existed, had the forms of crows or of eagle-hawks" (Brough Smyth, I, pp. 423-424).

[975] "Bayamee," says Mrs. Parker, "is for the Euahlayi what the Alcheringa is for the Arunta" (The Euahlayi, p. 6).

[976] See above, pp. 257 f.

[977] In another myth, reported by Spencer and Gillen, a wholly analogous rôle is filled by two personages living in heaven, named Ungambikula (Nat. Tr., pp. 388 ff.).

[978] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 493.

[979] Parker, The Euahlayi, pp. 62-66, 67. This is because the great god is connected with the bull-roarer, which is identified with the thunder; for the roaring of this ritual instrument is connected with the rolling of thunder.