Talk:List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures

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Regarding Suggested Merge of this List[edit]

This list is an interesting list which appears to collect together a large number of individual stub articles - although:

1. I strongly suspect this collection still only represents a small, fairly ad hoc sampling of the full number of Aboriginal deities/mythical characters/ancestral beings actually being told of by Aust Aboriginal people's across 400 or more groups, across this nation

2. nearly all of the articles listed badly need to be expanded upon, in particular:..

i. for Wikipedia verifiability standards: sources to be identified

ii. for authenticity reasons: the person/s and/or groups who orginally provided the names; and the person's/groups who tell of the deities; and/or the persons/audiences who recorded the names and the associated mythologies need to be identified

iii. for pan-Australian Aboriginal consistency sake, if the list is to have meaning: as far as practical the deities and/or their mythologies ought to be located within the Australian continent (where they are told of/occurr), and, as far as is possible, located within their local landscapes/topographies/geographies.

For the above reasons, I do not think it would be terribly useful to seek to merge the list, or the incomplete, ad hoc scatter of stub articles into the Australian Aboriginal mythology article.

Rather, perhaps, this list could/should form the beginnings of a working list for a large 'Australian Aboriginal mythology' project .. especially if there were a way to also locate the deities/characters/beings named within parts of the continent and/or local cultural landscapes from which the myths are sourced?? Bruceanthro (talk) 00:22, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

well, by all means, the problem is who will implement such a "large 'Australian Aboriginal mythology' project", and what to do with the article until anyone does. We can always slap a couple of tags on it and leave it lying, of course. dab (𒁳) 12:23, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It has been suggested on Australian Wikipedians' notice board#List of Australian Aboriginal deities that perhaps a Wiki project of the above suggested/necessary scale and nature might be started up as part of the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia (still under construction?!). I note I have also sought to stir up a bit of interest here. Bruceanthro (talk) 13:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections[edit]

I'd like to note that the term Murngin is an obsolete reference to a larger grouping of Yolngu peoples from W. Lloyd Warner. It's also misspelled here in several versions.
Thardid is not an unkown diety and comes from the well published Quinkan stories from Far North Queensland. Possibly Kuku Yulanji in origin from around the Laura area. See Percy Tresize's publishing's for more inclusions.

Ravanast1 (talk) 10:21, 6 April 2011 (AEST)

Move[edit]

This article was moved from List of Australian deities to List of Australian mythological figures. I do not know enough about the subject matter to judge whether this was an appropriate move. I think it should be discussed. Should this article be moved back to the former title (or is there a better move target)? Yngvadottir (talk) 04:19, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]