
Edition 747 - Tony Healy
The Unexplained With Howard Hughes
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The Origins of Yahweh in Australia
Yahweh is very much a feature of native Australian culture and recollection. Captain Peter Cunningham, a Royal Navy surgeon who farmed the Hunter Valley near Mount Sugarloaf in the 1820s may have been the first European to write about the phenomenon. There's a man-eating creature which resembled a tall man with a hairy body and long man. Its feet were reversed to confuse trackers, and its skin was so tough that spears could not pierce it. It roamed by night and about children but was afraid of fire.
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