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	Djunkgao -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In (Click link for more info and facts about Aboriginal mythology) Aboriginal mythology, the Djunkgao are a group of sisters who are associated with (The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land) floods and (A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere) ocean currents.
		They named the clans and all the animals, and made sacred wells from (Any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots) yam sticks.
		The youngest one was (Sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)) incestously raped and the sisters became mundane women.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Dj/Djunkgao.htm (113 words)

	Oceania Mythology - Australia
		Their journey is celebrated in a great cycle of some 500 songs rich in cryptic and symbolic imagery to which the translations and annotations of R. Berndt in Djanggawul provide a key.
		The eternally pregnant Djanggwul (Djanggau, Djunkgao) sisters are a dual manifestation of the Fertility Mother.
		The cycle begins with an evocative descriiption of the two women, their brother and a companion, Bralbral, paddling along, following the path of the morning star which guides them in their journey from Bralga, the dua island home of the dead.
	www.janesoceania.com /oceaniamyths_australia (12136 words)

	Djunkgao
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		In Aboriginal myth (specifically the Murngin myth cycle) the Djunkgao sisters named on their travels the clan countries and animals, and made totem wells with their yam sticks.
		They lost their totems to the men and became ordinary women when the younger sister was incestuously raped.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/djunkgao.html (91 words)

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