Extending deep into the caverns of humanity's oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian Aboriginal myths has been passed down through the generations by tribal storytellers. The myths were c...
An exclusive work by Parker, it focuses on the customs, beliefs, traditions and folk-lore of Australian Aborigines. This is ParkerÃs personal account of her intimacy which developed when she lived among the people of the Euahlayi tribe. She started ...
Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies was first published in 1896. The 30 tales are supplemented by a glossary and the first tale transliterated from the original language and are set in a 'no-time' w...
" ...]must do, necessarily marries out of his or her totem. The same arrangements exist among tribes which derive phratry and totem names through the father. This derivation of names and descent through the father is regarded by almost all students, ...
...The manners and rites of the natives were far the most archaic of all with which we are acquainted. Temples they had none: no images of gods, no altars of sacrifice; scarce any memorials of the dead. Their worship at best was offered in hymns to s...