At
the very first days of the dreamtime, Mens were creeping on their hands
and knees, because the sky was almost touching the ground. One day, one
old elder man come near a magic billabong and crouch to drink.
Drinking, he saw a beautiful stick, straight in the waters. With his
hand, he grasped it and took it.
And suddenly he though:" With this stick i can push back the sky and we
could live standing !"So he pushed and pushed the sky until he set it
at its present place and the trees started to grow up, opossums climbed
in the branchs and kangoroo jumped in joy.
The old elder man looked at his stick and found it terribly bent.
Thinking it was useless, he throw it away, but the stick return to him.
He throw it again and the stick return again. So he decided to keep it
and call it boomerang.
Story collected by Arthur et Les Janetski,