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The Rainbow Snake is a common feature of the mythology and art of indigenous Australian cultures[1]
The following is a list of Australian Indigenous Australian deities and spirits .
New South Wales [ edit ]
Baiame (Baayami), creator spirit of some peoples of New South Wales, including the Gamilaraay and the Wiradjuri
Bahloo (Baaluu), Gamilaraay personification of the moon who keeps three pet snakes
Birrahgnooloo (Birrangulu), Gamilaraay fertility spirit who would send floods if properly asked to; one of Baiame's two wives
Daramulum (Dharramalan), sky hero and son of Baiame and Birrahngnooloo
Dirawong , Bundjalung creator being
Dulagal , (Yuin people) predatory child-eater with red eyes, no neck and a long forehead, and walking "from side to side"
Ganhanbili , second wife of Baiame
Gurangatch a rainbow serpent / human inhabitant of the Dreaming who in his battle with the quoll Mirragañ created the landscape
Mirragañ a quoll / human inhabitant the Dreaming who went to hunt the rainbow serpent / human inhabitant of the Dreaming Gurangatch
Mungoon-Gali giant goanna in Yuwaalaraay myth, married to Kubbitha or Kabbitha the black duck who created the Murrumbidgee River , rival to Ouyouboolooey the black snake who stole Mungoon-Gali's poison for the snakes.
Whowie six-legged seven meter long frog-headed goanna of the Murray River who menaced nearby tribes
Wurrunna , culture hero
Yhi (Yaraay/Yaay), Gamilaraay personification of the sun and creator spirit
Northern Territory [ edit ]
Adnoartina , the lizard guard of Uluru
Altjira , Arrernte sky god who created the earth
Ankotarinja , the first man of Arrernte mythology
Bamapana , Yolngu trickster spirit who creates discord
Banaitja , creator deity
Barnumbirr , Yolngu creator spirit
Barraiya , creator of the first vagina
Bluetongue Lizard , an elderly trickster
Bobbi-Bobbi , benevolent Binbinga snake deity
Djanggawul , three creator-siblings of northeast Arnhem Land mythology
Djunkgao , a group of sisters associated with floods and ocean currents
Eingana (Jawoyn people) rainbow snake whose body during the rainy season releases animals and plants that the community relies on for food
Galeru , rainbow snake in Arnhem Land mythology who swallowed the Djanggawul
Garkain the Recluse, predatory being whose victim's souls are forced to forever wander the vast jungles of their final resting place
Inapertwa in Arrernte mythology, simple ancestral beings formed into all plants, birds, animals and later humans
Ipilja-ipilja 100ft gecko of Anindilyakwa myth. Adorned with hairs and whiskers. Spews swamp water to make the clouds of the sky, thunder is ipilja-ipilja's roaring. Ipilja-ipilja's home is a swamp filled with deadly waters. Similar to legends of maratji by Tiwi and Iwaidja people.
Julunggul , Yolngu rainbow snake goddess associated with initiation, fertility, rebirth and water
Karora , creator god
Kunapipi , a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes
Malingee , malignant nocturnal spirit
Mamaragan , lightning deity
Mangar-kunjer-kunja , Arrernte lizard deity who created humans
Manuriki , god of beauty
Maratji in Tiwi and Iwaidja myth. Lizards guard waterholes, cause floods and thunderstorms when intruded upon. Similar to Ipilja-ipilja .
Mimi , fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land
Minawara and Multultu , legendary ancestors of the Nambutji
Mokoi , an evil spirit in Yolngu stories who kidnapped and ate children
Namarrkon (also known as Namarrgon[2]
Ngintaka , Pitjantjatjara creator being
Nogomain , a god who gives spirit children to mortal parents
Onur , Karraur lunar deity
Papinijuwari , a type of one-eyed giant which feeds on the bodies of the dead and the blood of the sick
Tjilpa -men, significant mythic figures Aranda, Anmatyerre , Kaytetye , Ngalia , Ilpara and Kukatja stories. Tjilpa is the Arrernte word for quoll .
Tjinimin , the ancestor of the Australian people. He is associated with the bat and with Kunmanggur the rainbow serpent - per the Murinbata
Ulanji , snake ancestor of the Binbinga
Wala , solar goddess
Wawalag , Yolngu sisters who were swallowed by a serpent, only to be regurgitated
Wollunqua , snake deity associated with rain and fertility
Wuluwaid , rain god of Arnhem Land
Wuriupranili , a solar goddess whose torch is the sun
Wurugag and Waramurungundi , first man and woman of Kunwinjku legend
Yawkyawk , Aboriginal (Kunwinjku ) shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod .
Yee-Na-Pah , an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.
Yurlungur , Yolngu snake deity who swallowed and regurgitated the Wawalag sisters; associated with initiation and rebirth
Queensland [ edit ]
South Australia [ edit ]
Akurra , great snake deity of the Adnyamathanha people
Bila , cannibal sun goddess of the Adnyamathanha people
Bunyip , mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes
Mar'rallang , twin sisters who share a name and whose exploits are immortalized in the night sky in Ngarrindjeri stories
Minka Bird bird that foretells death among the Ngarrindjeri of Murray River
Muldjewangk , water spirit or spirits inhabiting the Murray River
Ngintaka , Pitjantjatjara creator being
Thardid Jimbo , cannibalistic giant in Ngarrindjeri folklore
Tjilbruke , Kaurna creation ancestor
Tasmania [ edit ]
Victoria [ edit ]
Baiame , southeast Australian creational ancestral hero
Balayang , bat deity and brother of Bunjil
Binbeal , Kulin rainbow deity and son of Bunjil
Bunjil , Kulin creator deity and ancestral being, represented as an eagle
Bunyip , mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes
Daramulum , southeast Australian deity and son of Baiame
Gnowee , solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; her torch is the sun
Karatgurk , seven sisters who represent the Pleiades star cluster
Kondole , man who became the first whale
Lo-an-tuka , wife of Loo-errn
Loo-errn , spirit ancestor and guardian of the Brataualung people
Nargun , fierce half-human, half-stone creature of Gunai legend
Thinan-malkia , evil spirit who captures victims with nets that entangle their feet
Tiddalik , frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it
Waang , Kulin trickster , culture hero and ancestral being, represented as a crow
Wambeen , evil lightning-hurling figure who targets travellers
Western Australia [ edit ]
Bagadjimbiri , a pair of Karadjeri creator-spirits
Dilga , Karadjeri goddess of fertility and growth, and mother of the Bagadjimbiri
Julana , lecherous Jumu spirit who surprises women by burrowing beneath the sand, leaping out, and raping them
Kidili , Mandjindja moon deity who was castrated for attempting to rape the first women, who in turn became the Pleiades
Kurdaitcha (or kurdaitcha man) is a ritual "executioner" in Australian Indigenous Australian culture (specifically the term comes from the Arrernte people).[3]
Ngariman , Karadjeri quoll-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri and was drowned in revenge
Njirana , Jumu deity and father of Julana
Ungud , snake deity associated with rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans
Wagyl , Noongar snakelike creator being
Wati-kutjara , a pair of western Australian lizard-men
Wirnpa a rainmaking snake who created the land around Percival Lakes during the Dreaming
Wondjina , Mowanjum cloud or rain spirits
Pan-continental [ edit ]
Unknown [ edit ]
^ Noonuccal, Oodgeroo; Noonuccal, Kabul Oodgeroo (September 1988), "The Rainbow Serpent", Meanjin , 47 3 ): 373–377, ISSN 0025-6293
^ Grant Mills (14 November 2012). "Kakadu Dreaming" . The Adelaide Review . Opinion Media. Retrieved 20 October 2018 .
^ Kurdaitcha
^ Oodgeroo Noonuccal; Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 1953-; Haywood, Eric Shane; Narkaling Inc (2001), The rainbow serpent , retrieved 12 May 2013 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link )
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
