THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
is durumbulum ; and the great ancestoral Bora ground 
the Kam ilaroi tribe is at Tirri-hai-hai. In Victoria 
this same instrument, a correspondent tells me, is called 
turndun, a name which I think should be written 
urum-dun. All these names are identical, and only 
modifications of dara-mil-wn, the original form; thus 
with a slight alteration of the spelling we have dar- 
mil-un, ‘turréemil: -un, durru-m-dun, dérru-mbulun, 
tirri-coty, terri-haihai. The root of all these forms is 
found in all the great branches of human speech and 
furnishing derivatives which mean ‘a prince, “4 
satisfactory account. But I take the name Daramulun 
to mean something like “Lord of the mysteries,” for itis 
evident that he pr resides at the Bora, and is the source 
of the blessings therein communicated. The u 
compare him with the Chaldean god, Hoa, 
man half fish, who, in the Chaldwo-Babylonian religion, 
was reverericed as the revealer of all religious and Gal 
knowledge. His abode was the sea, the Pers ea G 
presence of Daramulun’s image.) e Akk 
from them the Babylonians, invoked be aid of Hey 
when spells and enchantments were pags una 
* So, in Bora d magic : 
when Daramulun had been duly Soa aia 
influence conjured up for the driving alge of ae ses 
ees led into the inner sanctua: wary in the 
night, and there by a dim light allowed to see and knot 
the holy things. 
She Taian Ganesa — to ae ite were 
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