This figure’s canoe crew consisted of his trusted “first mate” Kareg and the less-trustworthy Zugubals who were slain and placed among the stars after they consumed this figure’s rations. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this culture hero of the Torres Strait Islanders, a fisherman whose body forms a large constellation that holds a Eugenia fruit in his right hand while his left hand forms the Southern Cross known in Western astronomy.
ANSWER: Tagai
[10e] In Torres cosmology, Tagai’s canoe is identified with this Western constellation whose “claws” were rearranged into the constellation Libra by the Romans. In Greek myth, Orion engages this constellation in battle.
ANSWER: Scorpius [or Scorpio; accept the Scorpion]
[10m] Among Australia’s Yolngu people, Scorpio resembles this animal that, in Gaagudju lore, was once a burned man named Ginga. In Hinduism, Varuṇa rides Makara, a beast that resembles this animal’s “mugger” species.
ANSWER: crocodiles [or nakra]
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