Miamei the seven sisters ppt

2. KATIE LANGLOH PARKER GREW UP ON HER FATHER'S
PROPERTY, MARRA STATION, NORTHERN NEW SOUTH
WALES. MARRIED AT THE AGE OF 18 SHE STARTED
COLLECTING STORIES AND VOCABULARIES FROM THE
LOCAL BRANCH OF YULAROI PEOPLE, WHICH SHE
SUBSEQUENTLY PUBLISHED IN SEVERAL COLLECTIONS
BETWEEN 1896 AND 1930.
IT IS BELIEVED THAT PARKER'S APPRECIATION OF
ABORIGINAL CULTURE PARTLY HAD ITS ROOTS IN AN EVENT
OF HER CHILDHOOD, WHEN SHE WAS SAVED FROM
DROWNING IN A RIVER BY AN ABORIGINAL GIRL AT THE AGE
OF SIX. PARKER'S COLLECTIONS OF YULAROI STORIES
Katie Langloh Parker

3. Meamei the Seven Sisters
prose Indigenous story
Author: K. Langloh Parker
First known date: 1896-1897

4. Aboriginal Australians
 Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the
Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to the Australian continent—mainland
Australia or to the island of Tasmania

5. Aboriginal Australians

6. Book of Australian LegendaryTales, by K.
Langloh Parker (1897) entitled:

7. Meamei
The Seven Sisters

8. The theme of the Seven Sisters stars
was familiar to the tribespeople in many parts
of the continent. In South Australia one of the
sisters is Pirili. The legend of Wahn the Crow
and the Seven Sisters and many others.

9. Wurrunnah had a long days hunting and he came
back to the camp tired and hungry. He longed for a feed of
grass-seed cakes. In spite of repeated requests, no one
would give him any, so he decided to leave the camp.
Wurrunnah had many adventures in his journey far
away to the camp. He met a Mooroonumildah, who had no
eyes but can see through the nose. Days passed until he
met the seven beautiful women. They were quite friendly
towards him. They were named Meamei. They would stay
for a while to see what it was like in the country and return
whence they had come.
 PLOT

10. The next day, he made a fresh start, and left the
camp of the Meamei, as if he was leaving for good. He
made a plan. It was long since he had seen a woman.
Two of the seven women were carried by Wurrunnah
and ordered to be his wives.
On the following day, Wurrunah ordered the two
women to strip the bark from a tree to cover the saplings
he was gathering, in order to make a humpy. The two
women went each to a different tree, and each with a
strong hit, drove their combos into the bark. As they did
so, each hit on the trees bearing them upward with it.
Higher out of the ground, higher grew the pine trees,
carrying the two women with it.

11. Wurrunnah was helpless. The real nature of the
seven sisters suddenly dawned on him. They were sky
women who had been visiting the Earth to satisfy their
curiosity about the ways of men.
Wurrunnah, all men, still see the Seven Sisters
every night, when the sky is clear, for they are the
Seven Sisters that white men call the constellation of
Pleiades.

12. 1. Wurrunnah – hunting man, pursued Seven
Sisters to their destinations.
2. Meamei- the Seven Sisters; Pleiades.
3. Mooroonumildah
4. Wurrunnah’s Mother
5.Tribesmen
 CHARACTERS

13. - Ominiscient ( the author narrated the
story, using they, she, he and it.)
 POINT OFVIEW

14. - The high visibility of the Star cluster Pleiades
in the night sky has guaranteed it a special place in
many cultures, both ancient and modern.
- The Pleiades have inspired a wealth of
mythology and legends: fascinating as these are the
reality the star cluster is profoundly more wonderful.
Historically the Pleiades were seen as a group of
Seven Stars – its brightest Stars: Alcyone, Atlas,
Electra, Maia, Merope,Taygeta and Pleione.
 SIGNIFICANCE / IMPACT
(History, Reality, and Literature)

15. - At a distance of about 440 light years from
the earth, the Pleiades are one of the nearest
galactic open clusters.

16. In the clear and unpolluted night skies of
antiquity the Pleiades star cluster was an object
of wonder and interest. It was the subject of
myth and legend in almost every culture on the
planet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1936)

17. Thank you… 3/09/2016
Reporter:
RICHARD G. PERELONIA
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