Bonefish (the Bullroarer Ancestor)
Wik Mungkan · deity · Wik Mungkan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Bonefish is the pulwaiya of McConnel's 'Bonefish and Bullroarer totems', an ancestral being tied to the sacred bullroarer and the auwa increase-sites of Wik-Mungkan country.
Domains
- totemic increase
Powers
- to carry and sound the sacred bullroarer
Sources
- Bonefish is a Wik-Mungkan ancestral being (pulwaiya) associated with the origin of the bullroarer and the totemic increase rites.: Ursula H. McConnel, 'Myths of the Wikmunkan and Wiknatara Tribes', Oceania 1, no. 3 (1931): 343-379. (secondary); Ursula H. McConnel, Myths of the Mungkan (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957). (secondary)