Editing Baiame (section)

==Description and history==
[[Image:BaiameCaveBulga0004.jpg|thumb|Baiame Cave, details]]
[[Image:Mt Yengo.jpg|thumb|Mount Yengo]]

The Baiame story tells how Baiame came down from the sky to the land and created rivers, mountains, and forests in all the lands. He then gave the people their laws of life, traditions, songs, and culture. He also created the first [[initiation]] site. This is known as a [[Bora (Australian)|bora]]; a place where boys were initiated into manhood. When he had finished, he returned to the sky and people called him the ''Sky Hero'' or ''All Father'' or ''Sky Father''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Footprints on Rock |year=1997 |location=Redfern, N.S.W. |publisher=Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council |isbn=0-7313-1002-0 |first1=T & N |last1=Popp |first2=Bill |last2=Walker}}</ref>

He is said to have two wives, [[Ganhanbili]] and [[Birrangulu]],<ref>Robert S Fuller et al, The Astronomy of the Kamilaroi People and their Neighbours, 12.</ref> the latter often being identified as an [[emu]], and with whom he has a son [[Daramulum|Dharramalan]]. In other stories Dharramalan is said to be brother to Baiame.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

It was forbidden to mention or talk about the name of Baiame publicly. Women were not allowed to see drawings of Baiame nor approach Baiame sites, which are often male initiation sites (boras).{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

In rock paintings Baiame is often depicted as a human figure with a large head-dress or hairstyle, with lines of footsteps nearby. He is always painted in front view; Dharramalan is drawn in profile. Baiame is often shown with internal decorations such as waistbands, vertical lines running down the body, bands and dots.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}