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Eagle and Crow Dreaming
This is the main story for Warrmun (meaning “a place to camp”). This story took place just behind the present day Warmun Community. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) both the eagle and the crow were people. The Eaglehawk and his wife the crow were sitting either side of a patch of white rock (quartz). The Eaglehawk was busy making spearheads from the hard quartz and asked the crow to help. Eaglehawk was ready to hunt for kangaroo. First he built up a fire of hot rocks so that they would have somewhere to cook the kangaroo. Eaglehawk asked the crow again, but she refused. Eaglehawk went out hunting and came back with a small, fat, girl kangaroo. When he got back to the camp, Crow was asleep. In anger the Eaglehawk threw a piece of quartz rock at the crow, striking her in the eye, and took the hot rocks from the fire and burnt the crow all over for being so lazy. They both turned into birds, and that is why crows are black with a white circle around their eyes. In the hill behind Warmun you can still see the white quartz camp of the eagle and the crow.
