Mimi (folklore)

Mimihs, also known as Mimi, are feengleiche beings who appear in the Dreamtime stories of the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land, in northern Australia. There are human beings who inhabit the rocks.

They are extremely thin and elongated body, so the risk that they break in strong winds or be swept away. Therefore, they spend most of their time in crevices where they protect against wind or merge with wind with the stone. Mimihs have human-like body, but are smaller. In the myths of the Aboriginal Mimihs should have told them how to hunt, cooked kangaroo meat and kindles fire. There are also myths, after which they led hunters in their country rocks and the hunter fell in love with Mimihfrauen and did not return.

The Mimih are part of a practiced by the Kuninjku Aboriginal ceremony, which is called Mamurrng and shows the theme of life and death. This ceremony is performed by them when other languages ​​aborigines come to their country, or after the birth of a boy.

In the art of Aboriginal rock paintings and wooden sculptures of Mimih play a certain role. Mimihfiguren were formed mainly from the Aboriginekünstler Crusoe Kuningbal in the early 1970s; after his death his son the art form in 3 to 4 meters high sculptures on. But there are also other artists that are dedicated to the Mimih theme of design.

In the painted works or drawings of the German sculptor and painter AR Penck Mimih -like male figures occur as line drawings.

Source

• Aboriginal mythology
• Aboriginal art
• Mythological beings