From Wikipedia;-
The Kabi (or Kabi Kabi or Gubbi Gubbi) people are an Aboriginal Goori people of Australia, and corresponding language group of the South East Queensland coast, stretching from Brisbane up to Bundaberg. In their language, "Kabi" means "No".
Recently smaller clan groups separated into sub-groups, and do not identify as Kabi, therefore the term Kabi now refers to a smaller group. Kabi were previously designated the main anthropological group identified in the South East Queensland region.
Buroinjin was a game played by the Kabi. Spectators called out 'Ei, ei' to applaud. Buroinjin was the name of the ball made from kangaroo skin.
The ancestral god of the Kabi people has a name that cannot be mentioned "in ordinary conversation", though a form of their god is the Djakkahn (the rainbow serpent), which is a part-fish part-snake ancestral spirit residing in deep water holes.
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