Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this library names people who have passed away.
Gamilaraay / Yuwaalaraay / Euahlayi
Yhi
Yhi is the Sun-woman in published Gamilaraay and Euahlayi accounts, including an emu-egg origin of daylight.
One recorded story says a brush turkey or brolga threw an emu egg east into a pile of logs. The fire became the Sun, which then travelled the sky each day. The Boorong people told Stanbridge a similar egg-and-fire origin. Two Nations, one motif, not one mashup sky.
Parker’s Euahlayi material also has Yhi as a wanton woman who chases the Moon. Fuller et al. treat that as a published folklore layer, not as a licence to invent new Law.
In this library Yhi is tagged to the Gamilaraay pack only. Open Boorong separately if you want the Victorian egg story in its own sky.
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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