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THE BLACK SWAN

from Reference 11

This story was told many years ago by an old dark man, he was one of the old clever fellow of his tribe. As the story goes he could have told you stories about every star in the sky. He had names for them all. The stars must have been his (jurraveel) totem spirit because he could tell you about them.

He said that the Southern Cross was Gineevee that is the black swan flying along and the two pointers are the head and tail of a spear thrown by a black fellow to kill Gineevee.

The Southern Cross only came here with the white man. Before the white man he was a swan, that's a jurraveel. You won't see Gineevee in any other part of the world.