Bunurong territory, of which Frankston is a part, stretches from the Werribee River in the western metropolitan area of Melbourne east to Wilsons Promontory in Gippsland and was referred to as "marr-ne-beek" ("excellent country") amongst the Kulin nation tribes. According to the Indigenous Australian mythology of the Dreamtime, the Bunurong territory was created by the ancestor spirit "Lohan". Patrilineally, all Bunurong tribe members are considered direct descendants of "Lohan". The creator of the Kulin nation-proper was the deity eaglehawk spirit "Bunjil", and the protector of its waterways and keeper of the wind was the trickster crow spirit "Waa".