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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 940 — Chapter IX · THE IDEA OF SPIRITS AND GODS

Joseph Ward Swain translation

On the composition of Bunjil's family, for example, see Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 128, 129, 489, 491; Brough Smyth, I, pp. 417, 423; for Baiame's, see L. Parker, The Euahlayi, pp. 7, 66, 103; Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 502, 585, 407; for Nurunderi's, Taplin, The Narrinyeri, pp. 57 f. Of course, there are all sorts of variations in the ways in which the families of these great gods are conceived. The personage who is a brother here, is a son there. The number and names of the wives vary with the locality.

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