Hunting fires , for example, appear frequently. Women, in particular, use fires to burn out anthills and to flush out bandicoots and other creatures from cover. But not all creatures know how to get fire or how to keep it. The most interesting motif among the fire myths, is the identification of fire with birds . Often the fire-clutching eagle or hawk of myth drops his firestick into grass, which spreads fire everywhere.
Escaped fires are common in myth, and their moral obvious.
Firstly they signify the danger of fire, and secondly, they explain how the fire became so prevalent in the landscape and among people. What had previously been hoarded, now became available to everyone . Other legends identify the heat and light of fire with the sun and sometimes with the stars. In some legends, earthly fire leads to heavenly fire . More importantly than joining the lights of heaven and earth, fire myths and fire rituals joined the spiritual and the physical.