翻譯：Yurlunggur

shiningdracon · 2009-02-03 22:46:11

原文：

資料一：
Yulunggu - Yurlungur – Yurlunggur
(Australian Legend)

Yulunggu is the name of the Rainbow Snake, or Rainbow Serpent, in the Dreamtime mythology of the Yolngu Native Australian people of Arnhem land of northern Australia.

Yulunggu inhabited deep water pools and was a vast serpent. There is a legend about some sisters named Borlere and Misilgoe who camped by the pool of Yulunggu without realising he was there. They tried to cook on their fire to be able to feed their girl and boy but everything jumped away from them and into the pool. Yulunggu then caused a great flood and the sisters realised something was not right so they started chanting and dancing to try to keep Yulunggu from their children.

Soon they were exhausted and fell asleep by the pool. During the night Yulunggu arose from the water and swallowed them all whole. He went to heaven and started boasting about what he had done, but swallowing humans was not approved and he was told so. Yulunggu then descended back to earth and regurgitated, it is not said if the sisters or their children suffered any ill-effects from their ordeal.

The legend is often re-enacted as part of the traditional puberty rites for young boys and girls.

Sources: Giants, Monsters & Dragons - Carol Rose

資料二：
Yurlunger / Yurlungur / Yulunggu / Yurlinggur / Great Father / Rainbow Serpent
Return to the Australia & New Zealand Page

Region: Arnhem, N Australia
Time Period: Unknown
References in Literature:
Sources: Illiana, Tysha Dragon, Circle of the Dragon

Notes:

    * Appears in the Dreamtime myths of the Yolungu people
    * Symbol of fertility and the rites of manhood
    * Might eat maidens if they wandered into his domain

Tale:

The sisters Borlere and Misilgoe were camping with their children near Yulunggu's lake home, but the food they tried to cook kept jumping back into the water. Yulunggu caused a flood and came for the children, but it wasn't until the sisters collapsed from exhaustion that he succeeded in this meal. But, he boasted of his take in heaven and the other gods told him to take them back, so he did.
Further Reading:

* Illiana, the Golden Dragon's Australia Page

資料三：
Yurlunggur is a genus of fossil snake in the extinct family Madtsoiidae. This genus was a part of the extinct megafauna of Australia, and contains the species Yurlunggur camfieldensis.[2][1]

A large apex predator that seems to have been extant in the region since the Miocene epoch. It is described as one of the Madtsoiidae family, that includes the species such as Wonambi naracoortensis, present in Australia until the Pleistocene.[3]

The name of the genus is derived from traditional name given by the people of Arnhem Land to the Rainbow serpent. They were large snakes, up to 6 metres long and 300 millimetres thick, that are more closely resemble Varanus (Monitors) than small burrowing lizards. John Scanlon has presented this as evidence of descent from the former, rather than burrowing ancestors that evolved into the elongate and legless snakes. The fossil material described by this species includes a rare example of a complete skull and mandible, often crushed in the fossilisation process, that was preserved in the soft limestone of a body of fresh water. This was found at the Riversleigh fossil site in northwest Queensland.[4]

The type locality is Bullock Creek, which occurs on the Camfield bed formations given in the specific epithet.[5]

更多相關資料連接：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurlunggur_camfieldensis

shiningdracon · 2009-02-03 22:46:38

譯文：

在澳大利亞北部雍古族原住民的傳說中，Yurlunggur是一條巨大的虹蛇，居住在湖中。傳說有一對名叫Borlere與Misilgoe的姐妹與她們的孩子在湖邊扎營。但她們試圖烹飪的食物總是會跳回水裡去。Yurlunggur發起大水，姐妹倆意識到不妙，因此開始了吟誦和舞蹈（某種巫術？）試圖保護她們的孩子們。直到姐妹倆因疲勞過度而暈倒後，Yurlunggur將一家子全部吞下肚。但當Yurlunggur在天堂中吹噓這件事時，其他神明告訴他不可以吃人，叫他把她們送回去。於是他照辦了。

注：目前找到的資料只有這麼多，等待冰拿到其他資料補充

shiningdracon · 2009-02-09 23:52:48

詳細多了，也很好理解（比如之前我就一直想不明白“食物總是會跳回水裡去”到底是什麼情況）
看起來這本書值得一買

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