Bunjil
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #388 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Bunjil is one of two moiety ancestors in the Kulin nation.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Gnowee, Nargun, Baiame, Daramulum, Karatgurk, Moinee, Droemerdene, Rageowrapper, Kondole, Lo-an-tuka, Loo-errn, Thinan-malkia, Tiddalik, Wambeen, Kunnawarra, Kururuk, Djurt-djurt, Kurok-goru, Binbeal, Thara, Bunyip
- parent of
- Binbeal
- manifests as
- wedge-tailed eagle
- served by
- Djurt-djurt, Thara, Djart-djart, Yukope, Lar-guk, Walert, Yurran
- allied with
- Waang
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Bunjil, Kulin creator deity and ancestral being, represented as an eagle”
#31359 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“Bunjil the eaglehawk, but lived apart from him. Once, Bunjil asked him to come and live with him, but Balayang replied that Bunjil's country was too dry. He took them to Bunjil, who gave them as wives to the men he had created.”
#31484 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“It is believed by the Kulin and other Aboriginal peoples that, in the Dreamtime, Bunjil took shelter in a cave located in the part of Gariwerd that is now known as the Black Range Scenic Reserve, not far from Stawell.”
#31518 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“Bunjil the Eaglehawk, who had seen all of this, asked Crow for some of the coals so that he could cook a possum. Crow instead offered to cook it for him. Soon, a large group had gathered around Crow's tree, shouting and demanding that he share the secret of fire with them.”
#31524 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001