Jungun
Ngarinyin · numen · Ngarinyin traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Jungun, bearing the name of the owlet nightjar, is the companion of Wodoi and the second of the two Gwion ancestral law-givers. Together the pair win the sacred object manjilarri and convene the clans at the stone table where the Wunan, the great law of sharing, is agreed. By exchanging children in marriage with Wodoi, Jungun founds the complementary moiety, so that the two nightjar divisions must always marry across, never within. In Ngarinyin telling the two heroes are inseparable, their paired action the origin of ordered society itself.
Domains
- law wunan
- moiety kinship
Powers
- establish the Wunan sharing law
- institute the marriage moieties
Epithets
- Owlet NightjarCultural Survival Quarterly, 'Teachings from Ancient Gwion Art' (secondary)
Relations
- companion: WodoiThe two Gwion heroes who together founded the Wunan and the moiety system.Ngarjno, Ungudman, Banggal, Nyawarra & Doring, J. (2000) Gwion Gwion. Könemann (secondary)
Sources
- Jungun, named for the owlet nightjar, is the second Gwion culture-hero who with Wodoi founded the Wunan law and the moiety system.: Doring, J. (2014) 'Gwion Artists and Wunan Law', Rock Art Research 31(1): 3-13 (secondary); Ngarjno, Ungudman, Banggal, Nyawarra & Doring, J. (2000) Gwion Gwion. Könemann (secondary)