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Mircea Eliade - Baiame, the supreme divinity
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A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative religion
Baiame, the supreme divinity among the tribes of South-East Australia (Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, Euahlayi), dwells in the sky, beside a stream of water and receives the souls of the innocent. He sits on a crystal throne; the sun and moon are …. his eyes, as with the Fuegians' Halakwulup and among the Semang and the Samoyeds. Thunder is his voice; he causes the rain to fall; in this sense too he is the Creator. For Baiame is self created and has created everything from nothing.... Other tribes of the East coast (Muring etc) believe in a similar divine being, Daramulum