Stories also explain, why things happen, where to go and not to go, how to find food, cultural practices, laws, history, family, associations, tribal boundaries and the relationships with every living creature and feature of land, sea and air. Like traditional Australian languages, cultural stories belong to specific Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Permission to tell these stories can only be given by the custodians of these stories and this should be respected. These stories explain the relationships that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have with their land and sea country. Where you look due south toward Hinchinbrook Muddamuddanaymy, pronounced Mudda-mud-ah-nah-me from Dunk Island Coonangalbah, pronounced Koo-nang-gol-bar , two boys paddled out in a canoe and dropped their stone anchor.
The elders had told them not to fish on that sand spit because there was a big shovelnose ray Dhui Dhui that lived there. The boys fished anyway. The ray bit their line and started to tow them around in the canoe, but the boys wouldn't let go of the line.
It towed them around the ocean for awhile before going down the Hinchinbrook channel. They disappeared into the horizon. By then, it was getting dark and everyone was worried about the boys.
As they were looking south with the night sky rising, the Southern Cross appeared, which was Dhui Dhui the shovelnose ray and the two pointers the two warriors in the canoe.
During Dingaal Dreamtime, the Lizard Island group of islands was formed. The Lizard group of islands is thought to be a stingray with Jiigurru being the body and the other islands forming the tail.
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