LEGENDS OF LAKE EYRE TRIBES. 531 
them, caused by the bones of the Mura-mura Kuyi-mokuna.*° 
Leaving that place he went to Wokadani,*! where the female 
Mura-mura Wariliu-luna ** formerly came out of the earth 
and gave birth to her many children, the murdus, which 
then ran off into different districts, where they settled them- 
selves. Thus Nura-wordu-pununa travelled till at Uga- 
padia 3° the favourable wind ceased for a long time, and he 
formed*a wide depression as he turned round smelling the 
wind as it blew first from one direction and then from 
another. Then stretching his neck westward towards his 
home, he formed the creek which leads to Kaparamana.** 
Then the wind blew direct from his home, and hastening on, 
and continually waving his tail with joy, he formed the 
windings of the creek, down which the flood-waters followed 
after him. Thus he passed by Mandikillawidmani,” where 
the Mura-mura Darana at one time stayed the rain by 
sticking his kandri*6 in the middle of the creek channel. 
Then he came to Wonna-mara,3? where he made rain by 
means of the Wonna-mara song, and then, passing by the 
home-place of the Mura-mura Darana,3® he arrived at 
Yulku-kudana,39 where, raising his neck to enable him to 
look round, he saw his camp and his wife. Then he 
hastened to it, and made a camp at Pando (Lake Hyre), at 
the place called Nura-wordu-pununa, where, with his. wife, 
who had also become a kadimarkara, he sank deeper and 
deeper into the earth. 
% This appears to refer to another legend which relates how the Murdus 
(when animals) came out of the earth in an island in Lake Perigundi 
(Lake Buchanan), and being revived by the heat of the sun, got. up and 
went away as human beings in every direction. See our paper on Mura- 
mura legends, Journal Anthrop. Inst., No 
31 The appadeer of the maps. 
® Shown in the maps as Kopperamana. This is incorrect, for the Dieri 
word Kapara-mara, that is, “ root-hand.’”’ It has some reference to the 
barter which took place here between the Dieri and the neighbouring 
tribes. Kapara, in this connection, has a meaning which approaches our 
word ‘ master.”’ 
3 Jn Dieri, mandikilla equals ‘a wave or waves,’ widmana equals 
“to thrust into,’ because it was there that the Mura-mura Darana, 
according to another legend, stayed a great flood by thrusting his kandri 
into the river-bed. A kandri is of wood, and is best described as a some- 
what curved, heavy, round stick, about three feet in length, which can be 
used either to throw or strike with. It also forms a “ ceremonial staff” 
on certain occasions. . 
* Wonna is the woman’s digging-stick, also her club. Wonna-mara is 
the name of a female Mura-mura who made rain, her song being used by 
Darana. 
*%Dara-is equals “ waste, desert.” * Yulku, in Dieri, means the lowest 
part of the neck; kudana equals ‘‘to lie down, or lower.’’ Referring to 
the Mura-mura lowering his aeck to hasten to his camp. 
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