The world of myths : a dictionary of mythology, by Frank Chapin Bray
- Bib ID:
- 114817
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bray, Frank Chapin
- Description:
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- New York, Thomas Y. Crowell company [c1935]
- x, 323 p. 20 cm.
- Summary:
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Lists the following terms - altjirra, atnatu, atoakwatje, baiame, biggarroo, bird myths, boorala, bunyip, churinga or tjuringa, daramulum, death myths, demogorgon, dinewan, dust creation myth, eruncha, fire myths, flood myths, goin, goonnear, inapertwa, knaninja, koen, kohin, koi, koyan and potoyan, koyorowen or yaho, kuinyo, kurdaitcha, kurriwilban, malbanga, mamingorak, Milky Way hero myth, mindi, moon-creator, moon-morning star ancestors, moon myths, mudgegong, mungan-ngana, nangarri, nepelle, nurrudere or nurunderi, pallyan or pallian, potoyan, pundjel or punjil, reincarnation myths, sun-creation, sun worship, tjuringa, totem ancestors, totem deities, twanjiraka, waiiri, wathi-wathi, yaho, yalaing, yerunthully.
- Subject:
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- Mythology -- Dictionaries, indexes, etc
- Stories and motifs - Devils, monsters, evil spirits, hairy men, bunyips
- Religion - Rites - Ceremonial objects - Tjuringa / Churinga
- Mythology
- Stories and motifs - Fire
- Religion - After death beliefs
- Stories and motifs - Baiame
- Race relations - Representation - History
- Stories and motifs - Moon
- Stories and motifs - Birds
- Stories and motifs - Eagles / hawks / crows
- Stories and motifs - Sun
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Law enforcement - Customary - Kadaitcha
- Stories and motifs - Stars
- Stories and motifs - Flood
- Religion - Totemism
- Australia
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1935
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