Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this library names people who have passed away.
Yolŋu
Ngalindi
Ngalindi is the Yolŋu Moon-man. Phases are his body cut down, three days dead, then fat again.
He is lazy, or worse, in different published versions. Wives and sons chop him thinner. He climbs a tree after the Sun. He dies. He returns. Until he first died, people did not stay dead. His curse ends that.
Tiwi Japara is a different Moon-man with overlapping motifs (three days, wounds, crabs). This page does not merge them.
The catalog shows phases as a labelled Moon in the Yolŋu pack. It does not illustrate violence beyond the published children’s outline.
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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