 | Charles Piazzi Smyth - 1867 - 566 pages
...sing and dance to gain the favour of the ' " Pleiades (Mormodellick), the constellation wor' " shipped by one body as the giver of rain." Now ' the Pleiades...month of November, when they appear ' at the horizon in the evening, and are visible all ' night. Hence their vernal festival of the Pleiades ' takes place... | |
 | 1873 - 544 pages
...who for certain good acts were taken to heaven and made stars of." Mr. McKellar also (p. 79) says: " They do, according to their manner, worship the hosts of heaven, and believe particidar constellations rule natural causes. For such they have names, and sing and dance to gain... | |
 | William Ridley - 1875 - 192 pages
...Murndell." Mr. M'Kellar, on the same occasion, said " They do, according to their manner, worship the host of heaven, and believe particular constellations rule...sing and dance to gain the favour of the Pleiades, " Mormodellik," the constellation worshipped by one body as the giver of rain ; but if it should be... | |
 | Robert Grant Haliburton - 1897 - 156 pages
...spring. Their monthly corroboree is in honour of the moon" (p. 9). C. J. Tyres, also says : " They sing and dance to gain the favour of the Pleiades...constellation worshipped by one body as the giver of rain." I need hardly add that the southern spring is about November. In my " Festival of the Dead," (i) I... | |
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they do, according to their manner, worship the hosts of heaven, and believe particular constellations rule natural causes. For such they have names, and sing and dance to gain the favour of the Pleiades (MormodellicK), the constellation worshipped by... 