Baiame
Baiame is a figure in the Aboriginal creation story, the dream time .
The creation being Baiame is a universal being that creates and permeates all material substances and the spirit. He is a male being, the creator of earth and heaven. The Christian missionaries have mostly seen this creature in comparison with their God or God the Father.
The Aboriginal tribes , such as the Kamilaroi , Eora , Darkinjung and Wiradjuri , who live in southern Australia, in New South Wales , assume that this creature cut the first human out of a rock. Baiame created all mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, plants and animals, but also all songs and cultures of the Aborigines. Baiame was not allowed to talk about, and women were not allowed to look at any of his pictures. The initiation ritual Bora goes back to Baiame , which is mainly held by the Kamilaroi to lead 10-year-old Aboriginal boys into manhood.
Baiame had Birrahgnooloo as his wife, who gave birth to Daramulum. Daramulum is also called Turramulan. This dreamtime figure taught people all manners and customs and when she had imparted her knowledge, this being rose to the stars.
Web links
- Baiame in the dream time (English)
- Baiame legend (German)
Individual proof
- ↑ Michael O'Rourke, Kamilaroi Lands: North-central New South Wales in the early 19th Century, Griffith ACT, 1997