Beliefs

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Chapter 8 [underlined]
Beliefs [underlined]

It appears the widespread if not universal
belief that the earth is a flat surface surmounted
by the solid vault of the sky.

The [crossed out - tribe were] Lake Eyre tribe held this [crossed out - the] belief

as is shown by me of the Wonkanguru tribal legends (p -)
which relate how the Yuri-ulu after the holding
of the Wilyaru [crossed out - by] ceremony went in their wanderings
and finally "beyond the normal way" passed through "hard darkness" with an
other country whence looking back they [crossed out - saw] surprized which
they had passed through on the edge of the [crossed out lake] shore.

{Left margin note] at p 3 +

The Jalathi [crossed out - tribe] about [Mirilamine?] said
that a medicine man once climbed up to the sky and
was let through it by a ghost (gŭmatch).
[Crossed out - In Porpum?] A Wotjoballuk legend says that at
first the sky rested in the earth [crossed out - but] and prevented
the sun from moving , but that [crossed out - the ?] [Goroke?]
(the magpie -?) propped up the sky by poles
and thus [crossed out - set the sun] freed the sun [which?] make
on its travells.

The idea of the sky being propped up was
[crossed out - come out] also the belief of the Kulin tribe. The
Woëworung said that it was propped up by poles which were in-
serted in the mountain in the north east. Berak
remembered that before the white men came to Melbourne
a message came down through the tribe that these poles
were becoming rotten and that unless tomahawks were sent
up at once [??] [??] the sky would fall and burst
and all people would be the drowned.

This same belief was spoken of by Buckley but was
a differed form namely that the earth was [supported?] by people
which were in the "charge of a man who lived at the furthest
end of the earth ? (1).

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The [Pujauibuk?] [??] [crossed out - but the] had the belief
that a [crossed out - several words??] [??] earth & a solid [??]
of some of these [??] [??] [??] is careful of [??] (1)
whether he had [is an?] "[??] to [??] end of the earth
when the sky [touched?] the grounds".

[Left margin note]
The Kurnai belief in
sky being a hard substance
comes out in the belief in
the account of the [Sun arch?] (p.-)
in camping with the [??]
ghost to the -----: when
it [crawled?] through a hole.

The [Njarya?] & [??] also
believed [crossed out - in the] that legend [??]
sky ([Kūtŭmbi?] then was
" and the country like the [west?]
[crossed out - here] [??] and tree".-

[Left margin note]
(1) Op. [??]
p 57
[??] tribe was
[??] Wűntherung
see p.-

[left margin note}
(1) Mr Parker