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'Dealing with the origin of things, of how the world came to be, these stories are cosmological in nature... The stories relate to localities within bulmba (country, homeland) of the Djabugay-speaking bama (Aboriginal people) of northern Queensland. Such places... are associated with the Storytime, the time of the world's making and the travels and exploits of the ancestral creator beings. Such places are Bulurru, Storyplaces or Storywaters... Bulurru links the past with the present, the land with the people, the people with Ancestral Law. Source: Bulurru: Storywaters (1990)
Notes
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Dedication: This book is dedicated to Wurrmbul who did not want his people to forget.
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Epigraph: What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake; we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so. Neitzsche.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Kuranda,
Cairns area,
Ingham - Cairns area,
Queensland,:Michael Quinn
, 1990 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Foreword, single work prose (p. iv)
- Bulurru, an Introduction, single work prose (p. v)
- Nyawari and Wanyarra, single work prose (p. vi)
- Guyala and the Baby from the Calf=Guyala Barndil-Djada Bala-M, single work prose dreaming story (p. 1-8)
- The Two Storywater Brothers=Yaba Mulu Bulurru, single work prose dreaming story (p. 9-15)
- How the Crocodile Got His Teeth, single work prose dreaming story (p. 17-28)
- How Damarri Stopped the Waters=Djirri Damarri-Nggu Bana Burrungany, single work prose dreaming story (p. 29-33)
- Gidiri, a Djabugay Storywater, single work prose dreaming story (p. 35-45)
- Wurruba, a Djabugay Storywater, single work prose dreaming story (p. 47-54)
- A View of Story Waters, single work review (p. 55-60)
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