The Creation Story
The Ngiyaampaa country have their own dream time story of the land belonging to Eaglehawk and Crow.
The Ngiyaampaa country have their own dream time story of the land belonging to Eaglehawk and Crow.
A long, very long time ago, in the beginning, there was no people. There was no trees, no plants or animals whatsoever on this land.
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There was only “Guthi-guthi”, the spirit of our ancestral being, he lived up in the sky.
“Guthi-guthi” came down and he wanted to create the special land for people, animals and birds to live in.
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So Guthi-guthi created land for the people. He set borders in place and sacred sights. He also created the birthing places of all the Dreamings, where all our Dreamings were to come out of.
Guthi-guthi put one foot on Gunderbooka Mountain and another one at Mount Grenfell.
Then, he looked out over the land and he could see that the land was bare. There was no water in sight, there was nothing growing. So Guthi-guthi knew that trapped in a mountain-Mount Minara-the water snake.
This water snake was called: “Weowie”. Weowie was was trapped in the mountain. So Guthi-guthi called out to him, “Weowie, Weowie”, but because Weowie was trapped right in the middle of the mountain, he couldn’t hear him.
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Guthi-guthi went back up into the sky and he called out once more, “Weowie”, but once again Weowie didn’t respond. So Guthi-guthi came down with a roar like thunder and banged on the mountain and the mountain split open. Weowie the water serpent came out.
Where the water serpent travelled he made waterholes and streams and depressions in the land.
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So once all that was finished, of course, Weowie went back into the mountain to live and that’s where Weowie lives now, in Mount Minara. But then after that, they wanted another lot of water to come down from the north, throughout our country.
Old Pundu, the Cod, it was his duty to drag and create the river known as the Darling River today.So Cod came out with Mudlark, his little mate, and they set off from the north and they created the big river. Flows right down, water flows right throughout our country, right into the sea now.
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And of course, this country was also created. The very first two tribes put in our country were Eaglehawk and Crow. From these two tribes came many tribes. The Ngiyaampaa people and the Barkandji further down are all sub-groups of Eaglehawk and Crow.
