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Gamilaraay / Yuwaalaraay / Euahlayi
Bahloo
Bahloo is the Moon-man in published Euahlayi and Gamilaraay material: phases, death, snakes, and girl babies.
Parker recorded Bahloo asking the first men to carry his dogs. They refused. The dogs became snakes. He stayed in the sky and men became mortal. Another recorded story has Wahn the crow trapping him up a tree that grew into the sky.
Euahlayi speakers said a late moon had been making girl babies. A halo was a house in the rain, or dust from a rain dance. These are weather and kinship readings, not Western selenography.
This object page stays with published sentences. It does not add a Mercury origin myth. /sky shows the Moon as a moving light in the Gamilaraay pack, labelled Bahloo.
Mercury 91 is not affiliated with any Aboriginal Land Council, Torres Strait Islander organisation, museum, or Stellarium. This library cites published ethnoastronomy. It is not a partnership and not a single pan-Aboriginal sky.
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