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Updated: May 24, 2025
'Dead is he, they cried, 'who laughs in the Bunbul where yungawee burns more fiercely than Yirangal, the sun, where near lies the image of Byamee: Byamee, father of all, whose laws the tribes are now obeying. Then the men chanted to the gubberahs and held them between the fires and the boys, the light of the flames seemed to play on them and stretch its beams to the boys, who began to tremble.
Such carvings were also put on the trees round the Bunbul, or little Boorah ring, where the branches were also in some instances lopped, and the trunks carved and painted to represent figures of men, amongst whom were supposed to be the sons of Byamee's wives.
After this, leaving the boys there, the men went back to the Bunbul ring. The bodies of the Boorah victims were cooked. Each man who had been to five Boorahs ate a piece of this flesh, no others were allowed even to see this done. Then the bones and what was left of the bodies were put into the middle of the fire, and all traces of the victims so destroyed.
Two of these sons had been made young men at the first Boorah Byamee instituted in this district, the ground of which is pointed out to this day. In the middle of the Bunbul a large heap of wood was placed ready for the Yungawee, or sacred fire. When the preliminary preparations were over, the camps were moved to just outside the Boorah, or big Boorah ring.
These they plastered over with mud and painted in different colours and designs. On the right of the Bunbul they made an earthen figure of Byamee this figure was reclining holding in each hand a Boondee. On the other side was the huge figure of a woman this represented Birrahgnooloo, the favourite wife of Byamee; she held two spears.
There was a third figure not so large as the other two but like them, apart from the figures near the path and the Bunbul; this was Baillahburrah, according to some, Dillalee according to others, the supernatural son of Byamee or as some say, brother not born of woman, having lived before the human race existed, before Byamee travelled as Creator and culture hero through Australia.
The fully initiated of each tribe, as they arrived, help in the preparation of the inner sacred ground, while the younger men collected game and other food. The old men cut out of the ground along the narrow path leading to the Bunbul, and round it, huge earthen animals, their various totems, such as crocodiles, kangaroos, emus and others, all of a colossal size.
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