Aboriginal Astronomy
Having a myth that utilizes astronomy, suggests the importance of natural world to the
Aboriginals. The story tells of three boys that set of for an expedition for fishing, they have a
taboo of consuming a kingfish. During fishing, the boys are getting more and more frustrated
by the point that they are continuously catching only kingfishes, so they eventually ignored
the traditional lore and ate the forbidden kingfish. The Sun-women was observing from the
sky, she banished the boys into the skies that formed the constellation. This story has the
moral