I posted the following information on another thread on this forum that addresses the term "Mulkurul" directly. I hope that it helps.
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I just found this at another site:
Subject: Re: line from the script of "The Last Wave"
From: hardtofindbooks-ga on 03 Feb 2006 15:36 PST
Hi,
the word is Mulkurul
here is the part you mentioned:
"Are you a fish?
No.
Are you a snake?
Are you a man?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Are you Mulkurul?
Yes."
here is some exposition from earlier in the film relating to a carved stone:
"This one I've seen before.
A spirit from the Dreamtime.
Aborigines believe in two forms of time - two parallel streams of activity.
One is the daily objective activity o which you and I are confined.
The other is an infinite spiritual cycle called the Dreamtime...
more real than reality itself.
Whatever happens in the Dreamtime establishes the values, symbols
and laws of Aboriginal society.
Some people of unusual spiritual powers have contact with the Dreamtime.
How?
Through their dreams. Through ceremonies involving sacred objects like
these stones.
What is the name of that spirit?
Ah. Its name is one of the few words recorded from a tribe once active
in Sydney. - Now extinct, of course.
Mulkurul?
Mulkurul.
This is a name given to a race of spirits who came from the rising sun
bringing sacred objects with them like these stones.
This tribe believed that the Mulkurul expressed themselves through people
of unusual spiritual power.
You mean, they're sometimes human?
Yes, the local belief was that they acted through humans.
White men?
No. Frankly, I don't think that any of us has the spiritual powers
that tribal people expect from Mulkurul.
You see, a Mulkurul has incredible premonitory dreams.
They usually appear at the end of a cycle when nature has to renew itself.
Most primitive cultures see life in cycles.
Each cycle ends with an apocalypse of some kind.
And then there is a rebirth.
What sort of apocalypse?
Oh, usually a natural cataclysm - a freeze, a flood, a big rain."
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=440749
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I found this, too:
After the trial, Chris decides to take David to the tribe's secret cavern, believing Chris to be some kind of second coming of the Mulkurul, who originally brought the artifacts to Australia. The journey initially proceeds through the same sewerage-processing conduits traveled by Corman near the film's beginning. That leads ultimately to an ancient underground chamber, stone stairs, and a secret inner sanctum. There, David finds drawings that seemingly foretell all of the recent bizarre events as well as one yet to transpire: a giant wave. There's also a mask identical in its physiognomy to David's own face. Charlie, who has such supernatural powers as the ability to transform himself into an owl or to materialize or dematerialize in different places, suddenly shows up in the tribal sanctum and he and David get into a brief scuffle, most of which transpires out of the viewer's line of vision. David emerges, however, and hurriedly exits from the cavern, carrying some kind of club and the mask of himself. The return route is a struggle for David. He drops the club at one difficult spot and the mask at another, so when he finally emerges through a sewerage drainpipe onto a beach, he is empty handed and in a bit of a frenzy. He crawls his way to the shallow waters by the shoreline, rinses his face, and looks up. Then, David sees, imagines, or hallucinates, in the distance, a monstrous tidal wave bearing down on the Australian continent.
http://www.epinions.com/review/mvie_mu-1011993/content_192019598980
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I've always believed that the wave is REAL, the culmination of David's visions.
~~MystMoonstruck~~
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