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==Background== The Djanggawul/Djang'kawu myth<ref>{{cite book| author = Wells, A.E. | title =This their dreaming | year =1971 | publisher= UQ Press, St.Lucia, Qld}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| author =Berndt, Ronald M. |author-link= Ronald Berndt | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=a3WrtxazTRkC| title =Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land | publisher =[[Routledge]] | year =2004 | page =1 | isbn =978-0-415-33022-0 }} (Originally published 1952)</ref> specifically concerned the [[Dhuwa|Dua]] (Dhuwa) [[Australian Aboriginal kinship|moiety]] of people, including about a third of the clans that lived in north-east Arnhem Land. The humans born of the two sisters are the ancestors of the [[Rirratjingu]] clan.<ref>{{cite book| author = Oliver, Douglas L. | title = Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands |year=1989 | publisher= University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu }}</ref> According to Milirrpum Marika (1983): "The base, foundation, culture, our Djang'kawu, the base of the Dhuwa moiety only, of the Dhuwa moiety and its various songs".<ref name=nmaancestors>{{cite web | title=The Djang'kawu ancestors | website=[[National Museum of Australia]] | url=https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/yalangbara/djangkawu-ancestors | access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref>
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