Minh Pinch (the Saltwater Crocodile Ancestor)
Wik Mungkan · deity · Wik Mungkan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Minh Pinch is the saltwater-crocodile pulwaiya; in the myth of the crocodiles' fight over fire he and the freshwater crocodile Minh Kanharr wound each other (the marks become their hides) and separate to salt and fresh water respectively.
Domains
- saltwater country
Powers
- to hold the saltwater river country
Relations
- rival: Minh Kanharr (the Freshwater 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 Pinch is the saltwater-crocodile ancestral being (pulwaiya) of the Wik-Mungkan, rival of the freshwater crocodile Minh Kanharr.: Ursula H. McConnel, Myths of the Mungkan (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957). (secondary)