The scholar Kuluk's study of clay sculptures from around the world to discover the connections between the embryonic forms of myths in different places.
Keyword | Stat |
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Near the Swan River | Geography 4, Humanities 6, Steering 2 |
Ochre | Treasure 6, Music 3 |
Apart from the oriental legends, clay figures can also be found in many mythologies in other areas of the world. This might be due to the living conditions of early humans, and their specific conditions, which vary from one area to another, resulted in the differences between these mythologies.
"At the dawn of time, two newly born primitive gods danced on the earth. When the first
rain fell, the gods continued playing in the mud, building a giant mound with clumps of soil. When the first gust of wind passed by, the mound turned into a boulder, on which the gods rested till the sunrise."
The story came from the oral descriptions of an aborigine living near the Swan River.
With many untranslatable local words, the story has undergone reasonable revisions. However, many other aborigines also provided completely different versions of the story.
"The two gods were invited to a feast. After a long time of waiting, the host finally found the gods absent from the feast, as they had long been deluded.
Enraged, the host turned the clay figure into a fierce hound and initiated a war against the gods. When the flood cleared the blood shed, the bodies of the gods turned into giant ochre boulders." The stories share some common features, and are probably adaptations of real-life tribe wars.
It seems that two tribes were at war during the rainstorm and flood after failing to reach a peace agreement, and the battlefield should be somewhere between the mountains.
Keywords | Translated keywords |
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Near the Swan River | Pingala |
Ochre | Reddish Brown |