"Every race has had a great traditional leader and lawgiver who gave it its first moral training, as well as its social and tribal customs. Nurunderi was the great leader of the aboriginals, and his laws are taught to the children in their infancy. He distributed the hunting-grounds among the various tribes and families, and the boundaries of these tribal hunting-grounds have remined unaltered from the remotest times. . . . A great chief or god of the Narrinyeri, who came down the Darling to the Lower Murray. He was the creator of the Narrinyeri country, its flora, its fauna, and its people. He was the teacher of the people and their legislator. He made his ascent to heaven from Lake Victoria.

Aborigine Myths and Legends, p 17.