[The Euahlayi Tribe by K. Langloh Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Euahlayi Tribe CHAPTER II 9/14
Yet it was Birrahgnooloo whom Byamee best loved and made his companion, giving her power and position which no other held.
She too, like him, is partially crystallised in the sky-camp, where they are together; the upper parts of their bodies are as on earth; to her, those who want floods go, and when willing to grant their requests, she bids Cunnumbeillee start the flood-ball of flood rolling down the mountains. Cunnumbeillee, as has been said, had but one totem which her children derived from her. Byamee is the originator of things less archaic and important than totemism.
There is a large stone fish-trap at Brewarrina, on the Barwan River.
It is said to have been made by Byamee and his gigantic sons, just as later Greece attributed the walls of Tiryns to the Cyclops, or as Glasgow Cathedral has been explained in legend as the work of the Picts.
Byamee also established the rule that there should be a common camping-ground for the various tribes, where, during the fishing festival, peace should be strictly kept, all meeting to enjoy the fish, and do their share towards preserving the fisheries. Byamee still exists.
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