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Gamilaraay / Yuwaalaraay / Euahlayi

Baiame and the Milky Way

Southeast published accounts place Baiame beside the Milky Way, with Daramulan coming to Earth by a path from the sky.

Ridley, Fraser, and later Fuller et al. note Baiame worshipped at bora, dwelling beside a great stream of water that is the Milky Way. Daramulan is the means by which Baiame sees all.

That is Law in the sky, not a Greek river of stars. The dark dust is Country. What is up there is also down here, a theme Gamilaraay participants stated to Fuller.

Mercury draws the published Milky Way as a river-band in the Gamilaraay sky. It does not stage Baiame as a playable god.

Mercury 91 is not affiliated with any Aboriginal Land Council, Torres Strait Islander organisation, museum, or Stellarium. This library cites published ethnoastronomy. It is not a partnership and not a single pan-Aboriginal sky.

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