Min Monti (the Jabiru Ancestor)
Wik Mungkan · deity · Wik Mungkan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Min Monti is the jabiru, or black-necked stork, one of the Wik-Mungkan pulwaiya - the ancestral totemic beings of western Cape York. In the myth recorded by Ursula McConnel from the narrator Kumita, Min Monti acts in the ancestral era to establish its totemic cult and the auwa, the place at which the increase of the species is ritually maintained. Each such pulwaiya founds an independent clan totem centred on its own site.
Domains
- wetland birds
Powers
- to multiply its species at the totemic increase-site
Epithets
- pulwaiyaMcConnel, Ursula H. 'The Wik-Munkan Tribe of Cape York Peninsula.' Oceania 1, no. 1 (1930): 97-104; no. 2 (1930): 181-205. (secondary)
Sources
- Min Monti, the jabiru (black-necked stork), is a named Wik-Mungkan totemic ancestor whose myth was recorded by Ursula McConnel from the narrator Kumita.: McConnel, Ursula H. Myths of the Munkan. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957. (secondary); South Australian Museum, AA 191 Ursula Hope McConnel Collection, Series AA 191/16 'Texts, mainly in Wik-Mungkan', item AA 191/16/14, 'Myth of Min Monti the Jabiru', recorded from Kumita. (primary)