Nagatya

The god who consecrates the Wotjobaluk medicine man by opening the man's belly and inserting the rock crystals that confer magical power.

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References

Sources

  • Eliade, Mircea. (1964). Shamanism. Bollingen Series no. 76. Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. 49.
  • Eliade, Mircea. (1973). Australian Religions. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, p. 145.