The Legend of Lumaluna: The Myth of Gluttony

The ancestors of the aboriginal from Australia they left as a legacy many of their customs, culture, stories, Legends and myths to your next generations. We know that you are interested in australian mythology and that is why today we will meet one of its greatest deities. We refer to God Lumaluna.

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The myth of Lumaluma, is a legend that clarifies the sin of gluttonyIt was a whale that by grace of the supreme god, this one transformed or took human form once it came out of the sea, to later marry two wives.

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His purpose on earth was to offer great blessings to the inhabitants of the earth but instead, the Lumaluma, chose to betray his sacred mission that he had been fulfilling and fall to the delights that the world offered, for that reason when he saw the something delicious for his palate, he ruled them as sacred, so that this fruit or stew could be eaten only by him.

Lumaluna only dedicated himself to teaching rites that consisted of rattling his canes, hitting each other. But one day so much was his gluttony that I did not respect other people's foodAs not respecting those camps that were made, he hoped that these people would move away from their camps and he took advantage of eating all the food he found leaving only crumbs, this act was continuous, he ate all earthly products declaring it as sacred to the food, even this he even ate the corpses of the children that they would have died due to different circumstances.

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This generated great terror in the population of Arnhem Land and they all opted together to kill him with spears and his wives in order to end this envoy of the supreme god, who, far from helping and blessing them, created serious pain and despair in them.


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