"We come from behind, cleaning up everyone's mess."

A tribe's totemic species characterise their traits, behaviours, including their 'metaphysical attributes of the tribe's who possess them. The Thungutti clan, my maternal link of the Upper Macleay River, NSW, southeastern Australia, were "Tribal Priests" who resolved intertribal conflicts and disputes. Tribal groups travelled hundreds of miles to seek their wisdom and mediation skills. The Mullet Fish play a pivotal role in keeping River Systems clean, creating a healthy environment for aquatic life. The work of the Thungutti tribal priests held that any friction within a tribal group created unhappiness, and that "negative energy" arising from these troubles must be kept neutral so as not to disturb the "peace" that leads to sickness and disturbs the tranquillity of tribal life, and must be appropriately maintained. 

The "metaphysical" attributes inherited by the Tribal Priests as they matured understood that elder spiritual leaders must maintain a clean and clear 'spiritual' atmosphere or it interferes with the health of healers and medicie men who keep tribal lore and order whose clairvoyance in keeping the spiritually unwell 'separated from everyday life, and just as the Mullet creates clean and healthy living space for aquatic species, tribal life is no different all efforts to "keep the peace" in both the physical and metaphysical realms sustained all aspects of Traditional Aboriginal Culture.

The first rule of Creation protected all life and ensured sustenance in times of plenty and in times of hardship.