A Ngadjuri boomerang dreaming story:

When the world was young, the light was brought by a great fire on which Bila, the sun cannibal woman cooked her humans victims. At this time, Knudu the lizard man, who was very good at throwing boomerang, and Muda the gecko man, went to visit their neighbour the euro-people. But they discovered that the euro people had been killed by the dogs of the sun woman and brought back to her camp. Furious against this bloody act, the lizard man decided to kill Bila to seek revenge.
When the sun woman saw Knudu coming, she screamed in rage. She draw a boomerang from her belt to throw at him but she was too slow. Before she could throw her weapon, Knudu's boomerang had injured her so badly, that she transforms herself in a ball of fire and disappears behind the horizon, leaving the world in complete darkness.

The lizards were scared by the calamity they have been doing, but Knudu decide to use his boomerangs to try to make coming back the light. He throw one to the Nord, but the darkness stayed. He throw two other, one to the West and the other to the South but nothing change. But when he threw a boomernag to the East, the lizards saw a great ball of fire rising and travelling slowly through the sky and disappearing behing the West horizon, creating the day and the night.








































Rock engraving image from flinders ranges showing a man with four boomerangs associated with a lizard figure, dated from 10 000 BP, that coud be depicting this particular Ngadjuri dreaming story.



After that, no Aboriginal people in the Flinders ranges wanted to kill a goanna or a gecko. They said that these animals had saved humanity from destruction and created the day and night: the day to gather food and the night to rest and sleep.

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