'These texts were recorded, chiefly at Numbulwar Mission (Northern Territory in the period 1973 to 1977. [The author] as a Research Fellow of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies was there working on several languages, but with primary emphasis on Nunggubuyu.' (Source: Introduction)
The story of two boys who bathing after their circumcisions in a billabong were attacked by olive python.
This myth is about the ritual transition connected with circumcision.
'In this myth a boy's parents have gone on ahead by themselves and have neglected the boy, who is trying to reestablish voice contact with them. Emu realises this and will now impersonate his mother in order to steal him.'
