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This is an important
dreaming story because it tells how the northern Flinders were created.
It also accounts for the difference between the euro and the kangaroo,
whilst telling people of the difference areas inhabited by the euro and
the kangaroos, the food they eat and warning of the dangers of greediness.
(This story was told by Elise Jackson and Annie Coulthard and transcribed
by Dorothy Tunbridge with Gertie Johnson in Education Department of South
Australia, 1992: 52-53)
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Once upon a time the whole country was flat. There were no hills at all.
There was a buck kangaroo called Urdlu and a buck euro called Mandya who
both lived at Puthadamathanha. These two used to travel around together
in the same country. One of their favourite foods was the wild pear root.
In fact, it was they who gave it its name ngarndi wari. |
