Wurrunnah

Role: hunter · First appears: Tale 10 · Meamei The Seven Sisters

Life events

Wurrunnah left his people, resolving to live with strangers.(Tale 10 · Meamei The Seven Sisters)
- “I will go to a far country and live with strangers; my own people would starve me.” And while he was yet hot and angry, he went.”
The seven Meamei gave Wurrunnah food and allowed him to camp with them.(Tale 10 · Meamei The Seven Sisters)
- With: the seven Meamei (Tale 10)
- “They gave him food and allowed him to camp there that night.”
Wurrunnah seized two Meamei sisters and forced them to travel with him as his wives.(Tale 10 · Meamei The Seven Sisters)
- With: the two Meamei taken by Wurrunnah (Tale 10)
- “He seized both girls round their waists, holding them tightly. They struggled and screamed, but to no purpose.”
The two captive sisters climbed the growing pines and joined their five sisters in the sky.(Tale 10 · Meamei The Seven Sisters)
- With: the two Meamei taken by Wurrunnah (Tale 10) the five Meamei left behind (Tale 10)
- “When they reached the tops of the pines the five sisters in the sky stretched forth their hands, and drew them in to live with them there in the sky for ever.”

parent: Wurrunnah's old mother (Tale 10) “He asked his old mother for durrie, but she said there was none left.”
married with the two Meamei taken by Wurrunnah (Tale 10) “Hearing no chopping after the first hits, Wurrunnah came towards the pines to see what was keeping the girls so long. As he came near them he saw that the pine trees were growing taller even as he looked at them, and clinging to the trunks of the trees high in the air he saw his two wives.”

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