 Opposite, beyond the coastline, the island they call Deen Maar/Dhinmar held special value for its burial associations.A cave there, known as "Tarn wirrung" ('road of the spirits'), is thought of as the mouth of a passage linking the mainland and the island.In Gunditjmara funeral rites, bodies are enfolded in grass bundles and interred with their heads pointing to the island, with an apotropaic firebrand of native cherry wood.