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Episode 54: Bunyip
There is no single bunyip. There are hundreds of languages on this continent, and the English word is a loan that flattened them. Episode 54 stays with names and stories that nations have put in public: Wemba-Wemba and Wergaia banib, Ngarrindjeri Mulyawonk, Dharawal gu-ru-ngaty, Wiradjuri mirree-ulla. It does not invent a Dreaming. It does not treat a newspaper sketch as law.
A billabong at night does not reflect the sky so much as swallow it. The word itself is Wiradjuri, water left behind when a river changes its mind. After flood, a loop of current becomes a still eye in the trees…
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