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  PROMETHEUS - LoveToKnow Article on PROMETHEUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thus Qat, Quahteaht, Pundjel, Maui, loskeha, Cagn, Wainamoinen and an endless array of others represent the ideal and heroic first teachers of Melanesians, Ahts, Australians, Maoris, Algonkins, Bushmen and Finns.
Like the Australian Pundjel, and the Maori Tiki, he made men of clay.
He it was who, when Zeus had changed his wife into a fly, and swallowed her, broke open the gods head and let out his daughter Athena.
80.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PR/PROMETHEUS.htm   (3355 words)

  
 Oceanic Mythology: Part V. Australia: Chapter I. Myths of Origins and the Deluge
One day Pallyan, the brother (or son?) of Pundjel, the maker of man, was playing in a deep water-hole and in so doing he thumped and thrashed the water with his hands until it became thick and muddy.
After men had multiplied, they became wicked; and thereupon Pundjel, coming down in anger from the skies, whither he and Pallyan had been carried by a whirlwind shortly after they had made the first human beings, with a great knife cut the people into small bits which moved and crawled about like worms.
These two men were set by Pundjel in the sky as stars, and he told all the people to be careful not to lose fire, now that they had it; but after a time they let it go out, and mankind was again fireless, while snakes became abundant everywhere.
www.sacred-texts.com /pac/om/om25.htm   (5688 words)

  
 Myths Of Origins And The Deluge Of Australia
Although in many cases 12 there are no detailed stories of the creation of mankind, the statement being merely that the first men were created, more definite myths do occur.
Thus, the tribes in the vicinity of Melbourne say that in the beginning Pundjel made two males from clay.
An origin of mankind from the sky is given by one of the tribes of the Northern Territory," who state that Atnatu, a self-created deity in the heavens, being angry at some of his children, threw them down to earth through a hole in the sky, and that these became the ancestors of the tribe.
www.oldandsold.com /articles29/mythology-20.shtml   (5163 words)

  
 Australian Aboriginal mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Puckowe - Grandmother spirit who lives in the sky
Pundjel - a creator god who invented religious rites.
Rainbow serpent - the inhabitant of permanent waterholes and is in control of water.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_mythology   (527 words)

  
 Schulers Books (The Making of Religion - 48/68)
Again, traces of human sacrifice appear in the ritual of Israel, and it is only relatively late that the great prophets, justly declaring Jehovah to be indifferent to the blood of bulls and rams, try to bring back his service to that of the unpropitiated, unbought Dendid, or Ahone, or Pundjel.
How the conception of Jehovah arose in Israel, whether it was a revival of a half-obliterated idea, such as we find among low savages; or whether it was borrowed from some foreign creed; or was the result of meditation on the philosophical Supreme Being of high Egyptian theology, is another question.
Thus, if worshippers of Baiame, Pundjel, and Darumulun coalesced into a nation, we might find all three gods living together in a new polytheism.
www.schulers.com /books/religion/m/The_Making_of_Religion/The_Making_of_Religion48.htm   (1767 words)

  
 Rhymes a la Mode - Part IV
And the Birds of the air they rejoiced everywhere, and they recked not of care that should come on them soon.
For the Hawk, so they tell, was then known as Pundjel, {5} and amusing he fell at the close of the day;
Then he went on the quest, as we thought, of a nest, with some bark of the best, and a clawful of clay.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/poetry/RhymesalaMode/chap4.html   (1269 words)

  
 Pundjel - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Pundjel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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In Australian aboriginal mythology, Pundjel is a creator god who invented most of the skills used by Australian Aborigines, including religious rites.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Pundjel.html   (74 words)

  
 PROMETHEUS - Online Information article about PROMETHEUS
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