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Rainbow Serpent

Index Rainbow Serpent

The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 95 relations: Aṉangu, Aboriginal Australians, Acrochordus, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Androgyny, Arnhem Land, Australian Aboriginal culture, Australian Aboriginal languages, Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology, Avon River (Western Australia), Bininj Kunwok, Blake Prize, Boulder, Boulia, Queensland, Bunyip, Children's python, Creator deity, CSIRO Publishing, Dalabon people, Dangu people, Deity, Depression (geology), Dick Roughsey, Diffraction, Drought, Earth (classical element), Eingana, Fertility, Fertility rite, Gaagudju, Genus, Great Sandy Desert, Hellblazer, Hermaphrodite, History of Eastern role-playing video games, Iridescence, Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range National Park, Kabi Kabi people, Kimberley (Western Australia), Kunapipi, Kunwinjku people, Lardil people, List of Australian Aboriginal group names, Macropodidae, Madtsoiidae, Maikulan, Maithakari, Megami Tensei, Menstruation, Monsoon, ... Expand index (45 more) »

  2. Australian Aboriginal legendary creatures
  3. Creator deities
  4. Dragon deities
  5. Oceanian dragons
  6. Rainbow deities
  7. Rainbow serpent deities
  8. Snake deities

Aṉangu

Aṉangu is the name used by members of several Aboriginal Australian groups, roughly approximate to the Western Desert cultural bloc, to describe themselves.

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Acrochordus

The Acrochordidae, commonly known as wart snakes, Java wart snakes, file snakes, elephant trunk snakes, or dogface snakes are a monogeneric family created for the genus Acrochordus.

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Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 1881–1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped further develop the theory of structural functionalism.

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Androgyny

Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics.

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Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Australian Aboriginal culture

Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology.

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Australian Aboriginal languages

The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363.

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Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies.

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Avon River (Western Australia)

The Avon River is a river in Western Australia.

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Bininj Kunwok

Bininj Kunwok is an Australian Aboriginal language which includes six dialects: Kunwinjku (formerly Gunwinggu), Kuninjku, Kundjeyhmi (formerly Gundjeihmi), Manyallaluk Mayali (Mayali), Kundedjnjenghmi, and two varieties of Kune (Kune Dulerayek and Kune Narayek).

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Blake Prize

The Blake Prize, formerly the Blake Prize for Religious Art, is an Australian art prize awarded for art that explores spirituality.

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Boulder

In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) is a rock fragment with size greater than in diameter.

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Boulia, Queensland

Boulia is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia.

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Bunyip

The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. Rainbow Serpent and bunyip are Australian Aboriginal legendary creatures.

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Children's python

Children's python (Antaresia childreni) is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Pythonidae.

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Creator deity

A creator deity or creator god is a deity responsible for the creation of the Earth, world, and universe in human religion and mythology. Rainbow Serpent and creator deity are creator deities.

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CSIRO Publishing

CSIRO Publishing is an Australian-based science and technology publisher.

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Dalabon people

The Dalabon or Dangbon are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.

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Dangu people

The Dangu (Dhaŋu, Dhangu) are an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, one of many Yolŋu peoples.

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Deity

A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life.

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Depression (geology)

In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.

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Dick Roughsey

Dick Roughsey (c. 1920 – 1985) was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Lardil language group on Mornington Island in the south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland.

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Diffraction

Diffraction is the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture.

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Drought

A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.

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Earth (classical element)

Earth is one of the classical elements, in some systems being one of the four along with air, fire, and water.

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Eingana

Eingana is a creator goddess in Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Jawoyn).

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Fertility

Fertility in colloquial terms refers the ability to have offspring.

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Fertility rite

Fertility rites or fertility cult are religious rituals that are intended to stimulate reproduction in humans or in the natural world.

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Gaagudju

The Gaagudju, also known as the Kakadu, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Great Sandy Desert

The Great Sandy Desert is an interim Australian bioregion, data located in the northeast of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions and extending east into the Northern Territory.

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Hellblazer

John Constantine, Hellblazer is an American contemporary horror comic-book series published by DC Comics since January 1988, and subsequently by its Vertigo imprint since March 1993, when the imprint was introduced.

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Hermaphrodite

A hermaphrodite is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes.

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History of Eastern role-playing video games

While the early history and distinctive traits of role-playing video games (RPGs) in East Asia have come from Japan, many video games have also arisen in China, developed in South Korea, and Taiwan.

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Iridescence

Iridescence (also known as goniochromism) is the phenomenon of certain surfaces that appear gradually to change colour as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.

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Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range National Park

Iytwelepenty / Davenport Range, or Davenport Ranges National Park (Iytwellepenty), previously the Davenport Murchison National Park, is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia about south-east of the territorial capital of Darwin, occupying around s of the Davenport Range.

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Kabi Kabi people

The Kabi Kabi people, also spelt Gubbi Gubbi, Gabi Gabi, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people native to South Eastern Queensland.

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Kimberley (Western Australia)

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Kunapipi

Kunapipi, also spelt Gunabibi, ('womb') is a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Kunwinjku people

The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu) people are an Australian Aboriginal people, one of several groups within the Bininj people, who live around West Arnhem Land to the east of Darwin, Northern Territory.

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Lardil people

The Lardil people, who prefer to be known as Kunhanaamendaa (meaning people of Kunhanhaa, the traditional name for Mornington Island), are an Aboriginal Australian people and the traditional custodians of Mornington Island in the Wellesley Islands chain in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland.

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List of Australian Aboriginal group names

This list of Australian Aboriginal group names includes names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Aboriginal Australians.

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Macropodidae

Macropodidae is a family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several other groups.

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Madtsoiidae

Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.

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Maikulan

The Maikulan were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.

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Maithakari

The Maikathari (Mayi-Thakurti) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland.

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Megami Tensei

Megami Tensei, marketed internationally as Shin Megami Tensei (formerly Revelations), is a Japanese media franchise created by Aya Nishitani, Kouji "Cozy" Okada, Ginichiro Suzuki, and Kazunari Suzuki.

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Menstruation

Menstruation (also known as a period, among other colloquial terms) is the regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Morelia (snake)

Morelia is a genus of large snakes in the family Pythonidae found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and throughout Australia.

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Morelia spilota variegata

Morelia spilota variegata, commonly known as Torresian carpet python, Darwin carpet python or northwestern carpet python, is a subspecies of python found in New Guinea and Australia, smaller than the nominate subspecies Morelia spilota spilota and has a more restricted geographic range.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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Murrinh-Patha

The Murrinh-Patha, or Murinbata, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Nacre

Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer.

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Natural environment

The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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Non-binary gender

Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.

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Noongar

The Noongar (also spelt Noongah, Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, and Yunga) are Aboriginal Australian people who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Oenpelli python

The Oenpelli python or Oenpelli rock python (Simalia oenpelliensis or Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis) is a species of large snake in the family Pythonidae.

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Opalescence

Opalescence or play of color is the optical phenomenon displayed by the mineraloid gemstone opal,opalescent.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Phallus

A phallus (phalli or phalluses) is a penis (especially when erect), an object that resembles a penis, or a mimetic image of an erect penis.

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Pitapita

The Pitapita or Pitta Pitta are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Queensland.

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Power (social and political)

In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors.

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Prism (optics)

An optical prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refract light.

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Pythonidae

The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Rainbow flag (LGBT)

The rainbow flag or pride flag (formerly gay pride flag) is a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements.

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Rainbow Spirit Festival

Rainbow Spirit Festival, previously known as Rainbow Serpent Festival, is a four-day annual open-air music and arts festival that takes place during the Australia Day (26 January) long weekend, in Lexton, Victoria, west of Melbourne, Australia.

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Rembarrnga

The Rembarrnga people, also spelt Rembarunga and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Serpent symbolism

The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols. Rainbow Serpent and serpent symbolism are Legendary serpents.

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Simalia

Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.

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Spectral color

A spectral color is a color that is evoked by monochromatic light, i.e. either a spectral line with a single wavelength or frequency of light in the visible spectrum, or a relatively narrow spectral band (e.g. lasers).

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Taipan

Taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family.

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Thalanyji

The Thalanyji, also spelt Thalandji, Dhalandji, and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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The Dreaming

The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Thylacoleo

Thylacoleo ("pouch lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene (until around 40,000 years ago), often known as marsupial lions.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Wagyl

The Wagyl (also written Waugal, Waagal, and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from the culture based around the south-west of Western Australia. Rainbow Serpent and Wagyl are Australian Aboriginal legendary creatures, creator deities and rainbow serpent deities.

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Walmadjari

The Walmadjari (Walmajarri) people, also known as Tjiwaling and Wanaseka, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Warumungu

The Warumungu (or Warramunga) are a group of Aboriginal Australians of the Northern Territory.

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Water python

The water python (Liasis fuscus) is a python species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

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Wawalag

The Wawalag sisters, also written as Wauwaluk Wawilak Waggilak, Wagilag, or Wawalik, are ancestral creator beings whose story is part of widespread sacred rituals in the Aboriginal culture from Arnhem land, Northern Territory, Australia.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Wik-Mungkan people

The Wik-Mungkan people are an Aboriginal Australian group of peoples who traditionally ranged over an extensive area of the western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland and speak the Wik Mungkan language.

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Windorah

Windorah is a town and a locality in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland, Australia.

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Wirnpa

Wirnpa is a rainmaking snake who according to Western Desert Australian Aboriginal legend created the land around the Percival Lakes in Wirnpa country, Australia in the Dreaming and whose image was used to repel outsiders. Rainbow Serpent and Wirnpa are Australian Aboriginal legendary creatures and Legendary serpents.

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Wolfe Creek Crater

Wolfe Creek Crater is a well-preserved meteorite impact crater (astrobleme) in Western Australia.

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Wollunqua

Wollunqua, also written Wollunka or Wollunkua, is a snake-god of rain and fertility in Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Warramunga people of the Northern Territory of Australia, a variation of the "Rainbow Serpent" present in the mythology of many other Aboriginal Australian peoples. Rainbow Serpent and Wollunqua are Legendary serpents and rainbow serpent deities.

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Wonambi

Wonambi is an extinct genus of madtsoiid snakes that lived in late Neogene to late Quaternary Australia.

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Yingkarta

The Yingkarta or Yingarda people, also written Inggarda and Ingarda, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.

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Yolngu

The Yolngu or Yolŋu are an aggregation of Aboriginal Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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See also

Australian Aboriginal legendary creatures

Creator deities

Dragon deities

Oceanian dragons

Rainbow deities

Rainbow serpent deities

Snake deities

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Serpent

Also known as Galaru, Galeru, Julunggul, Kalseru, Rainbow Dragon, Yingarna, Yulunggur, Yurlungur.

, Morelia (snake), Morelia spilota variegata, Motif (visual arts), Murrinh-Patha, Nacre, Natural environment, Natural resource, Non-binary gender, Noongar, Northern Territory, Oenpelli python, Opalescence, Oxford University Press, Phallus, Pitapita, Power (social and political), Prism (optics), Pythonidae, Queensland, Rainbow flag (LGBT), Rainbow Spirit Festival, Rembarrnga, Serpent symbolism, Simalia, Spectral color, Sydney, Taipan, Thalanyji, The Dreaming, Thylacoleo, Victoria (state), Wagyl, Walmadjari, Warumungu, Water python, Wawalag, Western Australia, Wik-Mungkan people, Windorah, Wirnpa, Wolfe Creek Crater, Wollunqua, Wonambi, Yingkarta, Yolngu.