Maban

{{about||the ethnic group|Maban people|the languages|Maban languages}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} '''Maban''', '''mabain''' or '''mabanba''' is a material that is held to be magical in some Australian Aboriginal mythology. It is the material from which the shamans and elders of Indigenous Australia supposedly derive their magical powers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mudrooroo |doi=10.1080/02560049685310111 |title=Maban reality and shape-shifting the past: Strategies to sing the past our way |journal=Critical Arts |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=1–20 |year=1996 }}</ref>

Among the Ngaanyatjarra people, practitioners are known as '''maparn''' or '''maparnjarra'''.

==References== {{reflist}} {{refbegin}} * A. P. Elkin (1973). ''Aboriginal Men of High Degree: Initiation and Sorcery in the World's Oldest Tradition''. Inner Traditions. * Munn, Nancy D. (1984). "The Transformation Of Subjects Into Objects in Walbiri and Pitjantjartjara Myths." In: M. Charlesworth, H. Morphy, D. Bell and K. Maddock, Eds. ''Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology.'' St. Lucia, Queensland: University Of Queensland Press. {{refend}}

Category:Australian Aboriginal mythology Category:Mythological substances