# Baralku

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thumb|right|Nhumuy, East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
'''Baralku''', also written '''Burralku''' or '''Bralgu''', is a place connected with [creation ancestors](/source/creator_being) in the mythology of the [Yolngu](/source/Yolngu) people of [Arnhem Land](/source/Arnhem_Land) in the [Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory) of Australia. It is referred to as [island](/source/island) of the [dead](/source/dead), and the place where the ancestors known as [Djanggawul](/source/Djanggawul) (Djan'kawu) originated,<ref>{{cite book| author =Ronald M. Berndt | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=a3WrtxazTRkC| author-link= Ronald Berndt|title =Djanggawul: An Aboriginal Religious Cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land | publisher =Routledge | year =2004 | page =1 | isbn =978-0-415-33022-0 }}</ref> before travelling by [canoe](/source/canoe) to [Yalangbara](/source/Yalangbara), where they gave birth to the [Rirratjingu](/source/Rirratjingu) clan.<ref name=wam>{{cite web | title=Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu|first=Margie |last=West | website=[Western Australian Museum](/source/Western_Australian_Museum) | date=7 December 2010 | url=http://museum.wa.gov.au/whats-on/yalangbara/background-essay | access-date=17 July 2021}}</ref>

Baralku is said to lie to the east of Arnhem Land and is where [Barnumbirr](/source/Barnumbirr) the creator-spirit (represented by [Venus](/source/Venus), the Morning Star in [Aboriginal astronomy](/source/Aboriginal_astronomy)) as she guided the Djanggawul sisters. Barnumbirr is also said to live on the island<ref>{{cite book| author =Raymond Haynes | author2 =David Malin | author3 =Richard McGee |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=XoeiJxMmXZ8C| title =Explorers of the Southern Sky: A History of Australian Astronomy | publisher =Cambridge University Press | year =1996 | page =14 | isbn =978-0-521-36575-8 }}</ref> and rises into the sky as Venus.

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