Dinewan
Also called Dinewan the Emu.
The emu king of the birds, who lost his wings to a bustard's trick and took a revenge that left the bustard laying only two eggs.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Australian folklore
- Region
- New South Wales, Australia (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Tricksters
- Symbols
- Bird
Near this figure
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Symbols
Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.
- Bird is image-domain The bird denotes the soul and its flight between worlds, carrying aspiration, prophecy and divine essence, and moving freely where the earthbound cannot follow.
why
The emu king of the birds, who lost his wings to a bustard's trick and took a revenge that left the bustard laying only two eggs.
Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Hospitality then entrapment
why
Goomblegubbon persuades Dinewan to give up his wings, on the argument that he would look finer without them, and he does it.
Utility powers
- Trickery and cunning
why
Once he understands what has been done to him he answers in exactly the same currency: he persuades the bustard that a smaller brood grows larger, and she destroys all but two of her twelve young in the belief that the survivors will grow to the size of emus.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.