Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this library names people who have passed away.
Yolŋu
Walu
Walu the Yolŋu Sun-woman carries a stringybark torch across the sky, then walks underground back to dawn.
Wells recorded the children’s version: a small morning fire, red ochre at sunrise, the torch of day, ochre at sunset, the long night road under the land. Tiwi have a near match. Tanganekald women carry fire-sticks in a related South Australian story.
The annual northward winter Sun is sometimes a woman who dislikes the cold and rolls away. That is published solar declination in story form.
Mercury will not add a Greco-Roman chariot. Walu is Yolŋu. The torch in /sky is a graphic, not a stolen bark design.
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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