Daramulum’s Family Tree

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Family

• Baiame(parent),Birrahgnooloo(parent)— Marriage

  Baiame the sky father and Birrahgnooloo the rain-bringer are the primordial couple of the Kamilaroi, whose union produced Daramulum, the one-legged intermediary who descends to earth during Bora ceremonies to speak between his father and humanity.

Serves

• Baiame

  Baiame the sky father delegated authority over earthly ceremony to his one-legged son Daramulum, who descends to preside over initiations and transmit sacred law that the remote creator will not deliver himself.

Associated with

• Bora

  Daramulum presides over the Bora initiation ground, where boys pass from childhood into the knowledge of sacred law — his presence at the rites marks the boundary between the uninitiated and those permitted to know.

• Bullroarer

  The deep pulsating roar of the bullroarer swung at initiation is the voice of Daramulum himself — the uninitiated hear only sound without source, while the initiated know whose breath shakes the air.