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Namorrorddo is a profane spirit sometimes called a ‘bad angel’ in Aboriginal English. The Namorrorddo is a yirridjdja moiety being associated with the Yabbadurruwa regional cult ceremony. Namorrorddo sits upon a rock and is usually painted with long claw like hands and feet.
Namorrorddo is a profane spirit sometimes called a ‘bad angel’ in Aboriginal English.
The Namorrorddo is a yirridjdja moiety being associated with the Yabbadurruwa regional cult ceremony.
Top End Aboriginal Painting MB037314 by Bruce Nabegeyo
Namorrorddo sits upon a rock and is usually painted with long claw like hands and feet.
Sometimes spurs protrude from the elbows somewhat like those of a flying fox. Namorrorddo carries light, which emanates from his head. The shooting stars seen at night are Namorrorddo travelling across the night sky.
He whistles an eerie cry, which Aboriginal people say they can hear at night from time to time. Namorrorddo is feared as an evil being who attacks humans by clubbing them with his fighting stick or miyarrul. Namorrorddo is also sometimes depicted carrying bamboo spears and a spear thrower. Namorrorddo is a major dreaming totem for the Kardbam clan. There are a few examples of images of Namorrorddo painted in rock shelters in the Mann and Liverpool Rivers district. As a child Burruwal was kidnapped by a group of Namorrorddo and was saved by his father Balang, a powerful Kordang (Clever Man).
In some places Namorrorddo is depicted with a brother or wife as below. This echoes the two brothers and the sister wife legends of iniquity. Stories of Namorrorddo were used to keep children away from dangerous places like billabongs and river edges and crocodile infested areas. Namorrorddo was held accountable for misadventure and illness in children.
– Namorrorddo was a malevolent spirit that manifested itself as a fiery meteor. His long claws were used to grab the souls of people and hearts of children, after which he sped across the sky as a meteor.
Descriptions and explanations of transient celestial phenomena are commonplace in Indigenous Knowledge Systems across the globe and in Australia, including comets (Hamacher and Norris, 2011a), variable stars (Hamacher, 2014(Hamacher, , 2018Hamacher and Frew, 2010;Leaman et al., 2014), and eclipses (Hamacher and Norris, 2011b), but also include atmospheric phenomena, such as meteors (Hamacher and Norris, 2010) and aurorae (Hamacher, 2013). Although the weather and climate knowledge of Indigenous Australians is being documented (see Clarke, 2009b;Green, et al., 2010: 223), many types of rare atmospheric phenomena remain poorly understood from the Indigenous Knowledge perspective. …
In Noongar language, kylie is a flat curved piece of wood similar in appearance to a boomerang that is thrown when hunting for birds and animals. “Kylie” is one of the Aboriginal words for the hunting stick used in warfare and for hunting animals.
Ngalbu Karndayh ngalka daluk nabininjkobeng ngalengarre Korlobbarr Kandakkidj. Nawu nakimuk kunj. Kani kore manberrk. Ngalbinijkobeng Karndayh kayawmang yaw korlobbarr. Korroko duninjh Korlobbarr marnbom Wubarr ceremony. Dja ngalbininikobeng nue Karndayh ngalka Wubarr yerrih koyhbomeng Walem djarrengh
balkoyhbomeng ngalbu Karndayh. Wanjh kumekke Walem kabolkngeyo Karndayh Koyhbomeng (place).Karndayh is a wife of big red kangaroo Korlobbarr (Kandakkidj) but in Wubarr ceremony they called him Nadulmi. In the dreamtime big red made wubarr ceremony his wife karndayh the female kangaroo was a leader for womens ceremony ceremony songs. She left the ceremony ground and went West towards Pine Creek singing along wubarr ceremony song saying Koyhbo koyhbo and stop there and named that place Karndayhkoyhbomeng thats the name of that place
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