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WGN, the Journal of the IMO 38:3 (2010) 87 Meteors in Australian Ab original Dreamings Duane W. Hamacher 1 and Ray P. Norris 2 We present a comprehensive analysis of Australian Aboriginal accounts of meteors. ... Amongst the Aboriginal people of Sugarloaf Mountain, New South Wales, the tooth-rapping ceremony (part of an initiation ceremony) was conducted by a medicine man who came to the Earth from the Sky World as a fiery meteor, and was considered a benevolent and good person (Gunson, 1974, p. 50). ...