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Main Title:	Aboriginal myths, legends and fables / [compiled by] A.W. Reed.
Author:	Reed, A. W. (Alexander Wyclif), 1908-1979
Imprint:	Chatswood, NSW : Reed Books, 1993.
Collation:	412 p. ; pbk, 20 cm.

Summary:	pt. 1. Myths : ch. 1. The great father : Baiame ; Baiame and the first man and woman ; Baiame and the bullroarer ; Baiame and man ; Baiame and Marmoo ; Baiame and the Bora ceremony ; Baiame and the flying grinding stones ; The wives of Baiame ; Baiame the benefactor ; The making of mankind ; Baiame, Punjel, and kookaburra ; Bunjil ; Bunjil the creator ; Bunjil and his people ; Nurunderi -- ch. 2. Totemic ancestors : Formation of landscapes ; The Tnatantja pole ; Karora the bandicoot ancestor ; Three brothers ; The ancestor with six sons ; The rainbow snake ; Taipan ; The rainbow snake and the orphan ; Julunggul ; The pursuit of Purra -- ch. 3. Creation myths : The first men and women ; The death of man ; River and sea ; The frilled lizard ; Sun, moon, and stars ; The insect tribe ; The bird tribe ; The discovery of fire. pt. 2. Legends : ch. 1. Reptile people ; The snake people of Ayers Rock ; Snakes and turtles ; Death to the giant snake ; Goanna makes a canoe ; Goannas and porcupines ; The lizard who came from nowhere ; The meat ants and the fire -- ch. 2. Frog people : The timid frogs ; The everlasting frogs -- ch. 3. Tree people : Koala and the rainbow ; Why koala has no tail ; Man into possum ; Red and black flying-foxes -- ch. 4. Animal people : The legs of the kangaroo ; The mice women who turned into dingoes ; The two dogs ; Water-rat and fire ; Echidna's spines -- ch. 5. Flower people : Coral creeper ; The flower child -- ch. 6. Crocodile people : Pikuwa and his wives ; The sad fate of Pikuwa ; The pursuit of Numeuk the hunter. pt. 3. Fables : The adventures of Yooneeara -- The anger of Pund-jil -- Baiame's gift of manna -- Bees and honey -- Black paint and red ochre -- The cannibal woman -- The case of the moth -- the coming of death -- The coming of Spring -- Dingo and native cat -- The dogs that were really snakes -- The dugong, the cockatoos, and the chicken hawk -- The fate of mocking bird -- A fight with a kurrea -- The first bullroarer -- The first man in the Southern Cross -- Fish hawk and lyrebird -- Fish moon -- The flies and the bees -- The flight of the bandicoot -- The frog and the flies -- The frog food of the bunyip -- The frogs at flood time -- The frog, the wallaby, and the dugong -- The gifts of the sun goddess -- Goanna and his stripes -- The great flood -- The hero who changed into a mountain -- How animas came to Australia -- How bats and shags were made -- How black snake became poisonous -- How blue heron brings in the tide -- How platypus was born -- How the Murray River was made -- How possum and cat killed kangaroo -- How tortoise got a swollen back -- How tortoise lost his tail -- How tortoise got his shell -- How the waratah was made -- How the waratah became sweet -- How tree-runner made a rainbow for his wife -- Kangaroo and emu -- The kanagroo dance -- Koala and bunyip -- Kulai and Culma -- The last song of Priepriggie -- Laughing jackass and the sun fire -- the miserable mopoke -- the moon's reward -- The oyster brothers and the shark -- Rainbow into fish into mountain -- The rainbow snake -- The rainbow snakes -- The rebellious son of Baiame -- The red cloud -- Rolla-mano and the stars -- The sandpiper's misfortune -- The sculptor -- The shaming of rainbow snake -- The son of Mount Gambier -- The song of the tree frogs -- The spear with the stingray spines -- Spiny lizard and galah bird -- Sun, moon, and the spirit of birth -- Suns, moons, and stars -- Turtle, oyster, and whale -- Why curlew cries plaintively at night -- The winds -- The woman who changed into a kangaroo -- The wooden devil-devil -- Yara-ma-yha-who.
Subject:	Myths and legends First Nations Australians - - Stories and religion First Nations Australians Australia
ISBN:	0730104249 (pbk.) :
Notes:	First published 1982. Originally published as three separate v.: Aboriginal fables and legendary tales, Aboriginal legends, and Aboriginal myths. Terrey Hills, N.S.W. : Reed, 1977 and 1978. This work contains text and/or images that may cause offence to members of the Australian Indigenous community, or may be deemed inappropriate for some users on the grounds of sex, age or social status by the Australian Indigenous community. Bibliography: p.12-13.