Legends of the Kulin, Kurnai, Wotjoballuk and Yuin

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[In - crossed out] All three types of belief have some [main - crossed out] feature
in common. They recognize[an - crossed out] a primitive time before
man [lived - crossed out] was [on the earth- crossed out], and when the earth was inhabited
by beings the precursors and the prototypes of the native race,
but more powerful in magic than they [even thou- crossed out] believe
themselves to be. But these beings are imagined to
[be- crossed out] have, if not created man, to have perfected him
from some unformed and scarcely human beings.
This primitive race is represented of the Mura Muras,
the Alcharinga ancestors, and the Muk-Kurnai
whose characteristics [have been given are h- crossed out] are
given in the [following - crossed out] preceeding pages.

Such are some of the principal similarities.
The differences are that in the western type
of legendary belief there is no great being like
Baiame, around whom the sacred teachings
of the ceremonies have been grouped. While in those
of the western type the ceremonies [in great measure- crossed out] a [the- crossed out] marked feature is
[are concerned with - crossed out] the production and magic of food supplies.
by [magical - crossed out] In all three types of beliefs there is a
more or less marked legendary account of the
origins of social institutions, in the western by
the interventions of supernatural beings, in the Eastern
by that of the tribal all-father.