Byamee (Tale 26)

Family: Byamee's tribe · Role: Wirreenun · First appears: Tale 26 · The Borah Of Byamee

Byamee, a great Wirreenun, took his sons Ghindahindahmoee and Boomahoomahnowee to the gathering of the tribes so they could be made young men. At Googoorewon, the boys were taken into the scrub for initiation. From that day forth, Byamee transformed the Mahthi into dogs, taking away their speech and laughter.

At last, Byamee fled with his sons to Noondoo. On the way, he hurried his old dog along, refusing to leave her behind. Byamee lived forever in a thick scrub, and looking upon his face was fatal.

Relationship record

Life events

• The boys were taken from the gathering into the scrub for initiation.(Tale 26 · The Borah Of Byamee · 📍 Googoorewon)
  • With: Ghindahindahmoee Boomahoomahnowee
  • “When the women were safely imprisoned beneath the boughs, the men carrying the boys swiftly disappeared down the track into the scrub.”
• Byamee transformed the Mahthi into dogs, taking away their speech and laughter.(Tale 26 · The Borah Of Byamee)
  • “They could but bark and howl; the powers of speech and laughter had they lost.”
• Byamee and the boys fled to Noondoo.(Tale 26 · The Borah Of Byamee · 📍 Noondoo)
  • With: Ghindahindahmoee Boomahoomahnowee
  • “And swiftly they went to Noondoo.”
• On the flight to Noondoo, Byamee hurried his old dog along.(Tale 26 · The Borah Of Byamee)
  • With: the old dog (Tale 26)
  • “Hurrying along with them, a dog of Byamee's, which would fain have lain by the roadside rather than have travelled so swiftly, but Byamee would not leave her and hurried her on.”
• Byamee lived forever in a thick scrub, and looking upon his face became fatal.(Tale 26 · The Borah Of Byamee · 📍 Noondoo)
  • “And Byamee, the mighty Wirreenun, lives for ever. But no man must look upon his face, lest surely will he die.”

Tale 26 · The Borah Of Byamee

• child: Ghindahindahmoee “Old Byamee, who was a great Wirreenun, said he would take his two sons, Ghindahindahmoee and Boomahoomahnowee, to the gathering of the tribes, for the time had come when they should be made young men, that they might be free to marry wives, eat emu flesh, and learn to be warriors.”
• child: Boomahoomahnowee “Old Byamee, who was a great Wirreenun, said he would take his two sons, Ghindahindahmoee and Boomahoomahnowee, to the gathering of the tribes, for the time had come when they should be made young men, that they might be free to marry wives, eat emu flesh, and learn to be warriors.”
• with the old dog (Tale 26) (Byamee's dog.) “Hurrying along with them, a dog of Byamee's, which would fain have lain by the roadside rather than have travelled so swiftly, but Byamee would not leave her and hurried her on.”

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Extracted from the original text of Australian Legendary Tales. Made with Rho MD.