In
Australia
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aboriginal mythology
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies. Aboriginal spirituality includes ...
(specifically:
Mandjindja
The Mandjindja or Mantjintjarra are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia belonging to the Western Desert cultural bloc.
Country
According to Norman Tindale's estimate, the Mandjindja's territory extended over roughly , in the sa ...
), Kidili (or Kidilli) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to
rape
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some of the first women on
Earth
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. The
Wati-kutjara wounded him in battle,
castrating
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him with a
boomerang
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, and he died of his wounds in a waterhole. The women he was trying to rape became the
Pleiades
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.
Australian Aboriginal gods
Mythological rapists
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