Minh Kanharr (the Freshwater Crocodile Ancestor)
Wik Mungkan · deity · Wik Mungkan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Minh Kanharr is the freshwater-crocodile pulwaiya, paired against the saltwater Minh Pinch in the Wik-Mungkan myth of the crocodiles' fight over fire that fixed each in its own waters.
Domains
- freshwater country
Powers
- to hold the freshwater river country
Relations
- rival: Minh Pinch (the Saltwater Crocodile Ancestor)The saltwater and freshwater crocodile ancestors fought over fire and parted to their separate waters.Ursula H. McConnel, Myths of the Mungkan (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957). (secondary)
Sources
- Minh Kanharr is the freshwater-crocodile ancestral being (pulwaiya) of the Wik-Mungkan, rival of the saltwater crocodile Minh Pinch.: Ursula H. McConnel, Myths of the Mungkan (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957). (secondary)