Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Rainmaking specialist restores water in drought

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A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Healing and Provision. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


indigenous australian

  • Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 3119-3222 confidence: high

    The country is drought-stricken: rivers are mostly dry, grass is dead, trees are dying, and bark rain shelters have long lain unused.

    A drought threatens the people; Wirreenun performs a series of prescribed actions and rain follows, after which the country becomes green.

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