Queensland: Mungkan (Wikmunkan), Wiknatara, Bloomfield River, Cape Bedford, Cape Grafton, Kokowara (Koko-Warra), Koko-yalunyu (Kokokulunggur), Bunya Bunya, Waka-Waka (Wakawaka), Kabikabi, Chepara

Tradition title rus:

Мункан (викмунгкан), вик-натара, река Блумфилд, вакавака, кабикаби, коко-ялунью, кокварра (коковара, коковарра), мыс Бедфорд); аборигены района Cape Grafton; бунья-бунья, чепара

Areal ID:

8.1.4.1

Areal:

Language:

Australian

Tradition analysis result motif count all:

24.00

Tradition analysis result motif count cosmo:

24.00

Linked Motifs

Motif	Name	Description
a12	Eclipses: monster’s attack	Some creature or creatures regularly (sunrise and sunset, summer and winter, lunar phases) or irregularly (solar and lunar eclipses, eschatological events) attack the luminaries or shade their light
a21	Luminaries are objects fixed in the sky	The sun and/or the moon are inanimate objects thrown up to the sky or fixed in the sky
a30	The Moon eats the dead	Moon descends to earth to eat children, corpses or bones of the dead
a4	Female sun	The Sun is female, the Moon is male or (more rare) also female
b125	Animals exchange their organs	During the time of creation particular species of animals (rare: plants) exchanged certain organs or traits or one animal borrowed an organ from another one but never brought it back. Thence the characteristics of these animals now. In rare cases the back exchange and restoring of the initial situation or the passing of certain organ from one animal to another without compensation are described
d13f	Laughter and fire	Laughter triggers emergence or spread of fire. Usually fire is obtained from a creature when it bursts out laughing
d4a	Theft of fire	Fire is stolen from its original owner or brought back to the people from somebody who had stolen it before
d4h1	Robin obtains fire	A small singing bird (robim, wren) steals fire for people
d4l	Fire from the sky	First fire is sent to earth from the sky or the ancestors ascend to the sky and bring from there fire or warmth
f1	First woman is a transformed man	Woman, female supernatural or animal females are created by changing the sex of a man (or male animals)
i1	The thunderbirds	Creatures that produce rain and/or thunderstorms are birds or anthropomorphic beings with wings; or (rare) some or all birds are connected with thunder, lightning or rain though Thunder is not a bird
i100	The Pleiades are girls	The Pleiades are a group of girls or women (with children)
i134	Long neck on the Milky Way	Figure of a long-necked creature (llama or nandu) is seen along the axes of the Milkt Way
i14	No-anus people	Person or creature has no anus opening
i3	Weapon of Thunder	The lightning (and thunder) is (produced with) an object (axe, sword, mirror, belt, stones, skin, etc.) in hands of anthropomorphic being
i41	Rainbow serpent	Rainbow is a reptile (usually a snake) or (more rare) a fish, or it is related to snake, to its tongue, breath, or to scorpion's tail
i41c	Sky object is a reflection of a snake	The rainbow of the Milky Way is a reflection of a snake (fish) that is on the earth or in the sea
i42	Rainbow is a pair of creatures	Rainbow is two creatures or persons, usually a male and a female
i47	Rainbow is filth	Rainbow is a flatulence of a demon, a spray of a skunk, is associated with spit, urine, feces, genitals, etc., causes skin diseases, is associated with death
i65	Milky Way of the dead	Milky Way is the path over which souls travel to the beyond or a path of the funeral procession
i67	Emu and rhea in the Milky Way	A giant figure of an emu (in Australia) or rhea (in South America) is seen in the Milky Way
i82b	Venus is female	Morning and/or Evening Star is a female personage
i82c	Venus is the Moon’s wife	Venus or some other bright star seen near the eastern or western horizon is female and wife of the Moon
l111	Hook from the sky	The sky dwellers fish human beings who live on earth with a line and a hook