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Kardin-nilla Kardin-nilla i(6102971 works by) (a.k.a. kardinnilla )
Born: Established: South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 The Story of the Creation W. Ramsay Smith , Kardin-nilla , 1930 single work prose dreaming story
— Appears in: Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines 1930; (p. 23-31)

According to this story, the sun and the moon, who are female and the morning star who is male, were deities who gave origin to the human race, and when humans died they become stars in the sky.
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