ALL-FATHER. Nineteenth-century reports on southeastern Australia showed a widespread belief in a male spirit who transcended others in this part of the continent. Known by diverse names, including Baiame, Bunjil, Daramulun, Kohin, and Munganngaua, he...

The supreme being in the religion of the Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi peoples in Australia. The name means ‘creator’ or ‘the great one’, and women refer to him as ‘our father’. He created first himself and then all other...

Baiame (Baayami or Baayama) is a creational ancestral hero in the dreaming of several language groups (e.g. Kamilaroi, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri), of Indigenous Australians of South-East Australia. Baiame came down from the sky to the land, and...