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Warwick QLD, Australia - 20th September 2007
By: spanks
On the thursday, Dee took us for a walk down to the river front to see the giant Platypus and giant Frog - Tiddalik .. it was very exciting! We also stopped and climbed a giant tree, it was super windy so we had to be really careful too, i ended up getting stuck not very far up, thankfully, so Dee kindly helped me down again. Then wewatched the ducks swim lazily by and we almost got a pic of a blue tongued lizard but just as Dee snapped the pic the little critter took a run for it and she missed it 
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Tiddalik the Flood Maker
Tiddalik, the largest frog ever known, awoke one morning with an unquenchable thirst. He started to drink, and he drank until there was no fresh water left in the world. The creatures everywhere were soon dying and the trees were shedding their leaves because of the lack of moisture. It seemed that very soon Tiddalik the frog would be the only one alive.
The animals could not think of a way out of their terrible plight, until a wise old wombat suggested that if Tiddalik could be make to laugh, all the imprisoned water would flow out of his mouth.
So, everyone gathered by the giant frog’s resting-place. For a long time they tried to make him laugh, but in vain. The kookaburra told his funniest stories, so good that he could not help laughing at them himself; the kangaroo jumped over the emu;and the blanket lizard waddled up and down on two legs making his stomach protrude; but the frog’s face remained blank and indifferent.
Then, when the animals were in despair, the eel, Nabunum, driven from his favourite creek by the drought, slithered up to the unresponsive frog, and began to dance. He started with slow, graceful movements, but as the dance became faster he wriggled and twisted himself into the most grotesque and comical shapes, until suddenly Tiddalik’s eyeslit up and he burst out laughing. And as he laughed, the water gushed from his mouth and flowed away to replenish the lakes, the swamps and the rivers.
Source: The Dreamtime Book Australian Aboriginal Myths Text by Charles P Mountford and Paintings by Ainslie Roberts Rigby Publications, Adelaide, 1993 |
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 Posted Sep 25, 2007, 9:31 am Last edited Sep 25, 2007, 9:31 am by spanks
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