Chinny-kinik
Ringkasan
Chinny-kinik adalah raksasa kanibal mengerikan dari mitologi Australian Aboriginal yang meneror dataran Yenpulla di South Australia.
Chinny-kinik was a cannibal giant from Australian Aboriginal mythology who terrorized the Yenpulla plain in South Australia.
Kisah dan tradisi
Dalam mitologi Australian Aboriginal di South Australia, Chinny-kinik adalah sosok raksasa pemangsa manusia yang meneror dataran Yenpulla di sebelah timur Murray River. Dua orang pamannya melacak jejaknya hingga ke lubang runtuhan di wilayah Pekarra dan menemukan pintu masuk ke gua yang luas. Saat Chinny-kinik berlindung di dalam gua dari hembusan angin dingin, kedua pamannya menumpuk kayu bakar di mulut gua lalu menyalakannya. Mereka menambahkan batang kayu besar untuk menutup pintu masuk dan mengakhiri riwayat sang raksasa kanibal. Menurut sebuah jurnal speleologi, Tom Bellchambers mencatat legenda ini pada 1921. Chinny-kinik berkeliaran di dataran luas berhutan mallee di sebelah timur Murray River dan melahap siapa pun yang ia temui, sampai dua pamannya melacak jejak kakinya ke lubang runtuhan di Pekarra. Perjuangan dahsyatnya mengguncang bumi saat asap menyusup ke sarangnya. Bellchambers bertekad menemukan gua itu dan mempersempit lokasinya ke bentang lima puluh kilometer di Murray Mallee bagian barat. Penulis artikel menduga nama "Pekarra" keliru dicatat dan seharusnya "Bakara", karena sebagian penutur Aborigin tidak membedakan bunyi p dan b. Gua Bakara Well baru ditemukan Wayne Goedecke pada awal 1970-an, dan penulis menilai lubang runtuhan serta parit yang mengarah ke pintu masuknya sesuai dengan deskripsi legenda.
In Australian Aboriginal lore from South Australia, Chinny-kinik was a dreaded cannibal giant who terrorized the Yenpulla plain east of the Murray River. Two of his uncles tracked him to a sinkhole in Pekarra, discovering his cavernous hideout. While the giant took shelter inside against cold winds, the uncles piled firewood across the cave mouth and ignited it. Adding heavy logs to seal the blaze, they blocked the passage and secured his demise. A speleological journal reports that Tom Bellchambers recorded this legend in 1921. Chinny-kinik ranged across a wide mallee plain east of the Murray River, eating whoever he found, until two of his uncles followed his footprints to a sinkhole at Pekarra. His great struggles made the earth shake as smoke drifted into his lair. Bellchambers set out to find the cave and narrowed its probable site to a fifty-kilometre strip of the western Murray Mallee. The article's author suggests "Pekarra" was misrecorded and should read "Bakara", since some Aboriginal speakers did not distinguish p from b. The Bakara Well Cave was found by Wayne Goedecke in the early 1970s, and the author judges that the sinkhole and gully leading to its entrance match the legend's description.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Aborigin Australia
- Kawasan / Region
- Oseania
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Giant
- Habitat
- Cave
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Kedua paman Chinny-kinik menyalakan tumpukan kayu bakar di pintu gua Pekarra untuk memusnahkan sang raksasa.
The uncles of Chinny-kinik piled logs across the cave entrance at Pekarra to destroy the giant in a blaze.