ABSTRACT
In this essay, I will consider religious narratives, or myths, and their relation to space. The Australian Arrernte myth about Numbakulla, originally recorded by Spencer and Gillen around 1900, will serve as a reference point because it clearly involves a relation to space and because it has been richly commented, most notably by two of the greatest historians of religion, Mircea Eliade and Jonathan Z. Smith. I believe that they can be taken as relatively representative for how the relation between space, narrative and religion has been conceptualized in the study of religion.1
