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Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

Index Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology

Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology (also known as Dreamtime or Dreaming stories, songlines, or Aboriginal oral literature) are the stories traditionally performed by Aboriginal peoples within each of the language groups across Australia. [1]

197 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Adnyamathanha, Alawa, Anjea, Ankotarinja, Annan River, Australian folklore, Australian raven, Bagadjimbiri, Bahloo, Baiame, Baijini, Bamapana, Ban Ban Springs, Barraiya, Billy Wara, Binbeal, Binbinga, Birrahgnooloo, Black Mountain (Kalkajaka) National Park, Bluetongue Lizard, Bobbi-Bobbi, Boon wurrung, Bungandidj people, Bunjil, Bunyip, Bunyip River, Bunyip, Victoria, Cleverman, Corvus, Crow (Australian Aboriginal mythology), Dhakhan, Dilga, Dirawong, Djab wurrung, Djadjawurrung, Djargurd Wurrung, Djunkgao, Dreamfall Chapters, Dreamtime, Eingana, Emu, Emu and the Jabiru, Erathipa, Folk memory, Frankston, Victoria, Freddy West Tjakamarra, Galeru, Gamilaraay, Garkain, ..., Ginger Wikilyiri, Girai wurrung, Gudjal, Gugu-Badhun, Hector Burton, History of Australia, History of Hinduism, I'wai, Ian Keen, Inapertwa, Indigenous Australians, Irreligion in Australia, Jardwadjali, Jimmy Baker (Australian artist), Jindyworobak Movement, Julana, Julunggul, Kagara (mythology), Kakuru, Kalkadoon, Kidili, King of the Gods, Kinie Ger, Koala, Kondole, Kunapipi, Lake Euramoo, Lake Mackay, Landscape, List of craters in the Solar System, List of culture heroes, List of death deities, List of deities in Marvel Comics, List of geological features on Hyperion, List of legendary creatures (B), List of legendary creatures (D), List of legendary creatures (I), List of legendary creatures (M), List of legendary creatures (R), List of legendary creatures (W), List of legendary creatures (Y), List of lunar deities, List of montes on Venus, List of mythological objects, List of mythologies, List of rain deities, List of religions and spiritual traditions, List of solar deities, List of swamp monsters, List of volcanic features on Io, Lizard, Maban, Major religious groups, Makiri, South Australia, Malingee, Mamaragan, Mangar-kunjer-kunja, Mar'rallang, Max Charlesworth, Meanings of minor planet names: 1–1000, Meteorite Men, Milatjari Pumani, Minawara and Multultu, Mircea Eliade, Mokoi, Mormo, Mount Beerwah, Mount Bonython, Mount Oxley (New South Wales), Mount Tibrogargan, Mount Woodroffe, Mythology of Australia, Ngaanyatjarra, Ngariman, Ngilgi Cave, Njirana, Nogomain, Northern Territory, Numakulla, Numen, Obdurodon, Obdurodon tharalkooschild, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Patricia Wrightson, Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka, Pitjantjatjara, Prayer, Protoplast (religion), Pulpurru Davies, Pundjel, Quartz, Quinkan rock art, Quinkana, Rainbows in culture, Religion, Religion in Australia, Robert Ingpen, Sky, Thardid Jimbo, The Arkaroo, The Dreaming (comics), The Magic of Reality, The Nargun and the Stars, The Nargun and the Stars (TV series), Thinan-malkia, Thomas Tjapaltjarri, Tiddalik, Timbarra Gold Mine, Tingari, Tjinimin, Trickster, Ulanji, Umbriel (moon), Underworld, Ungud, Urreligion, Vincent Forrester, Wagyl, Wala (goddess), Walala Tjapaltjarri, Wandjina, Wangaibon, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Warlugulong, Warrandyte, Victoria, Wathaurong, Wati-kutjara, Wawalag, Wingu Tingima, Wollunqua, Wuluwaid, Wunda, Wunda (crater), Wurrunna, Wurruri, Wurugag and Waramurungundi, Wurundjeri, Yalti Napangati, Yalungur, Yangoor (crater), Yara-ma-yha-who, Yawkyawk, Yee-Na-Pah, Yhi, Yilpi Adamson, Yukultji Napangati, Yurlungur. Expand index (147 more) »

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Adnyamathanha

The Adnyamathanha (Pronounced) are a contemporary Indigenous Australian people from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, formed as an aggregate of several distinct peoples.

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Alawa

The Alawa people are an Indigenous Australian people from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Anjea

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Anjea is a fertility goddess or spirit.

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Ankotarinja

In Australian Aboriginal Mythology, Ankotarinja is the first man, also called the Dreaming Man.

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Annan River

The Annan River (Kuku Nyungkal: Yuku Baja) is a river located in the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Australian folklore

Australian folklore refers to the folklore and urban legends that have evolved in Australia from Aboriginal Australian myths to colonial and contemporary folklore including people, places and events, that have played part in shaping the culture, image and traditions that are seen today in Australia.

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Australian raven

The Australian raven (Corvus coronoides) is a passerine bird in the genus Corvus native to much of southern and northeastern Australia.

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Bagadjimbiri

In Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Karadjeri), the Bagadjimbiri are two brothers and creator gods.

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Bahloo

In Australian Aboriginal mythology of southeast Australia, particularly among the Kamilaroi people of northern New South Wales, Bahloo is moon man.

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Baiame

In Australian Aboriginal mythology Baiame (Baayami or Baayama or Byamee) was the Creator God and Sky Father in the dreaming of several language groups (e.g. Wonnarua, Kamilaroi, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri), of Indigenous Australians of south-east Australia.

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Baijini

Baijini are a race of people, mythical or historical is unknown, mentioned in the Djanggawul song cycle of the aboriginal Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Bamapana

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Yolngu), Bamapana is a trickster god who causes discord.

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Ban Ban Springs

Ban Ban Springs is a locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Barraiya

Barraiya is a god in Australian aboriginal mythology who created the first vagina with a spear so that Eingana could give birth.

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Billy Wara

Billy Wara (c. 1920 – November 2008) was an Australian Aboriginal craftsman who made wooden sculptures.

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Binbeal

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Binbeal is the god of rainbows.

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Binbinga

The Binbinga, also pronounced Binbinka, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Birrahgnooloo

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Kamilaroi), Birrahgnooloo is a goddess of fertility who would send floods if properly asked.

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Black Mountain (Kalkajaka) National Park

Black Mountain (Kalkajaka) National Park is a 781 hectare.

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Bluetongue Lizard

Bluetongue Lizard is an old man in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Bobbi-Bobbi

In myths of the Binbinga people of northern Australia, Bobbi-Bobbi was a supernatural being who lived in the heavens in the Dreamtime.

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Boon wurrung

The Boon wurrung, commonly written Bunurong, are Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who occupy South-Central Victoria, Australia.

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Bungandidj people

The Bungandidj people are Indigenous Australians from the Mount Gambier region in south-eastern South Australia, and also in western Victoria.

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Bunjil

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Bunjil is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle (or eaglehawk).

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Bunyip

The bunyip is a large mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes.

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Bunyip River

The Bunyip River is a perennial river of the Western Port catchment, located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Bunyip, Victoria

Bunyip is a town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 82 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Cardinia local government area.

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Cleverman

Cleverman is an Australian television drama program based on an original concept by Ryan Griffen.

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Corvus

Corvus is a widely distributed genus of medium-sized to large birds in the family Corvidae.

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Crow (Australian Aboriginal mythology)

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, '''Crow''' is a trickster, culture hero and ancestral being.

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Dhakhan

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Dhakhan is the ancestral god of the Kabi; he is described as a giant serpent with the tail of a giant fish.

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Dilga

In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Karadjeri), Dilga is a goddess of fertility and growth, and the mother of the Bagadjimbiri.

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Dirawong

In Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Bundjalung Nation, the Dirawong, an unseen spiritual creature also known as the goanna spirit, is one of the Creator Beings of the Bundjalung Nation, that 1) Protects 2) Guards, 3) Battled the Rainbow Snake, and 4) Helps the people with; 'Aboriginal astronomy, body designs, bullroarers, bush cosmetics, bush foods, bush medicines, cave paintings and designs cut into trees, ceremonial headgear, ceremonial poles, cultural lore, dances, dreaming's, games, geographical locations, how people are required to behave in their communities, initiations, laws of community, paintings, rock art, rock engravings, rules for social behaviour, sacred chants, sacred earth mounds, sacred ground paintings, songlines, songs, stone artifacts, stone objects, stories, structures of society, symbols, technologies, the ceremonies performed in order to ensure continuity of life and land, values, wooden articles, wooden sacred objects, and also the beliefs, values, rules and practices concerning the peoples relationship to the land and water of Widje tribal territory within Bundjalung country. The Dirawong is known as a benevolent protector of its people (in the Bundjalung Nation) from the Rainbow Snake (also known as the 'Snake' or 'Rainbow Serpent'). The Dirawong (goanna) is also associated with rain and there is a rain cave on Goanna Headland where the Elders of the Bundjalung Nation people went in the old days to organise ceremonies for rain.

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Djab wurrung

The Djab wurrung, also Tjapwurrung, people are Indigenous Australians who occupy the volcanic plains of central Victoria from the Mount William Range of Gariwerd in the west to the Pyrenees range in the east encompassing the Wimmera River flowing north and the headwaters of the Hopkins River flowing south.

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Djadjawurrung

Djadjawurrung or Dja Dja Wurrung, also known as the Jaara or Jajowrong people and Loddon River tribe, is a native Aboriginal tribe which occupied the watersheds of the Loddon and Avoca rivers in the Bendigo region of central Victoria, Australia.

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Djargurd Wurrung

The Djargurd wurrung are Indigenous Australian people of the Western district of the State of Victoria, and traditionally occupied the territory between Mount Emu Creek and Lake Corangamite.

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Djunkgao

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Djunkgao are a group of sisters who are associated with floods and ocean currents.

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Dreamfall Chapters

Dreamfall Chapters (Drømmefall Kapitler) is an episodic 3D adventure game with emphasis on character interaction, exploration of the game world, and puzzle solving.

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Dreamtime

Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Eingana

Eingana is a creator goddess in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.

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Emu and the Jabiru

Emu and the Jabiru is an Australian Aboriginal myth.

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Erathipa

In Aboriginal mythology, Erathipa is a boulder that has the shape of a pregnant woman; contained within Erathipa are the souls of dead children which can inhabit the bodies of fertile young women.

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Folk memory

Folk memory is a term sometimes used to describe stories, folklore or myths about past events that have been passed orally from generation to generation.

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Frankston, Victoria

Frankston is an outer-suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Frankston.

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Freddy West Tjakamarra

Freddy West Tjakamarra (previously Tjukurti Tjakamarra; born around 1932 – died 1994) was an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Galeru

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Galeru (or Galaru) was a rainbow snake who swallowed the Djanggawul.

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Gamilaraay

The Gamilaraay, also called the Kamilaroi are an Indigenous Australian people whose lands extended from New South Wales to southern Queensland.

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Garkain

Garkain is a legendary creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology said to haunt the dense jungle along the Liverpool River in the Northern Territory.

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Ginger Wikilyiri

Ginger Nobby Wikilyiri is an Australian Aboriginal artist from Nyapaṟi, South Australia.

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Girai wurrung

The Girai wurrung (also spelled Kirrae Wuurong) are Indigenous Australian people who traditionally occupied the territory between Mount Emu Creek and the Hopkins River up to Mount Hamilton, and the Western Otways from the Gellibrand River to the Hopkins River.

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Gudjal

The Gudjal, also known as the Kutjala, are an indigenous Australian people of northern Queensland.

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Gugu-Badhun

The Gugu-Badhun, also written Kokopatun, are an Indigenous Australian people of northern Queensland.

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Hector Burton

Hector Tjupuru Burton (1937 - 27 February 2017) was an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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History of Australia

The History of Australia refers to the history of the area and people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies.

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History of Hinduism

History of Hinduism denotes a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent notably in modern-day Nepal and India.

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I'wai

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, I'wai is the culture hero of the Koko Y'ao.

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Ian Keen

Ian Keen (born 21 November 1938) is an Australian anthropologist, whose research interests cover Yolngu kinship structures and religion, Aboriginal land rights and economies, and language.

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Inapertwa

In Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Arrernte), the Inapertwa are the simple creatures with which the Numakulla modelled all life (Plant, animals, birds) on Earth.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Irreligion in Australia

Atheism, agnosticism, deism, scepticism, freethought, secular humanism or general secularism are increasing in Australia.

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Jardwadjali

The Jardwadjali (also known as the Jaadwa) are Indigenous Australians of the State of Victoria, whose traditional lands occupy the lands in the upper Wimmera River watershed east to Gariwerd (Grampians) and west to Lake Bringalbert.

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Jimmy Baker (Australian artist)

Jimmy Baker (born as Pintjutjara; about 1915 – 20 April 2010) was an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Jindyworobak Movement

The Jindyworobak Movement was an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s whose white members, mostly poets, sought to contribute to a uniquely Australian culture through the integration of Indigenous Australian subjects, language and mythology.

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Julana

In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Jumu), Julana is a lecherous spirit who surprises women by burrowing beneath the sand, leaping out, and raping them.

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Julunggul

In the Australian Aboriginal mythology of Arnhem Land, Julunggul is a rainbow snake goddess, who oversaw the maturing and initiation of boys into manhood.

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Kagara (mythology)

Kagara is a character in Australian aboriginal mythology associated with lightning.

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Kakuru

Kakuru is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period.

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Kalkadoon

The Kalkadoon (properly Kalkatungu) are descendants of an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland.

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Kidili

In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Mandjindja), Kidili (or Kidilli) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth.

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King of the Gods

In polytheistic systems there is a tendency for one deity, usually male, to achieve pre-eminence as King of the gods.

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Kinie Ger

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Kinie Ger is an evil half-man, half-quoll beast that hunts and kills the innocent with his spear, until he is himself killed in an ambush.

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Koala

The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, or, inaccurately, koala bear) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia.

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Kondole

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Kondole was a mean and rude man.

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Kunapipi

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Kunapipi is a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes.

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Lake Euramoo

Lake Euramoo (a.k.a. Ngimun & Nuta) is a shallow dumbbell-shaped volcanic crater lake (a maar) in North Queensland, Australia, formed about 10,000 years ago by two massive explosions from groundwater superheating.

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Lake Mackay

Lake Mackay (Pitjantjatjara: Wilkinkarra) is the largest of hundreds of ephemeral salt lakes scattered throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

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Landscape

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.

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List of craters in the Solar System

This is a list of named craters in the Solar System as named by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.

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List of culture heroes

A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.

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List of death deities

Deities associated with death take many different forms, depending on the specific culture and religion being referenced.

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List of deities in Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics includes many characters based on deities from several mythological pantheons.

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List of geological features on Hyperion

This is a list of named geological features on Hyperion, a moon of Saturn.

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List of legendary creatures (B)

* Ba (Egyptian) - Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird.

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List of legendary creatures (D)

* Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits.

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List of legendary creatures (I)

* Iannic-ann-ôd (Breton) - Ghost of a drowned person.

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List of legendary creatures (M)

* Maa-alused (Estonian mythology) - Subterranean spirit.

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List of legendary creatures (R)

* Rå (Norse) - Spirit that protects a specific place.

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List of legendary creatures (W)

* Waldgeist (German) - Forest spirit.

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List of legendary creatures (Y)

* Yacumama (South America) - Sea monster.

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List of lunar deities

In mythology, a lunar deity is a god or goddess associated with, or symbolic of the moon.

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List of montes on Venus

This is a list of montes (mountains, singular mons) on the planet Venus.

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List of mythological objects

Mythological objects encompass a variety of items (e.g. weapons, armour, clothing) found in mythology, legend, folklore, tall tale, fable, religion, and spirituality from across the world.

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List of mythologies

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List of rain deities

There are many different gods of rain in different religions.

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List of religions and spiritual traditions

Religion is a collection of cultural systems, beliefs and world views that establishes symbols relating humanity to spirituality and, often, to moral values.

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List of solar deities

A solar deity is a god or goddess who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength.

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List of swamp monsters

A swamp monster (also variously called a swamp creature, swamp man, or muck monster) is a fictional creature found imagined to lurk in a swamp.

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List of volcanic features on Io

This is a list of named volcanic surface features on Jupiter's moon Io.

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Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Maban

Maban or Mabain is a material that is held to be magical in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Major religious groups

The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, although this is by no means a uniform practice.

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Makiri, South Australia

Makiri is a location in the northwest of South Australia, where a rock hole and an Aboriginal outstation are located.

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Malingee

Malingee is a nocturnal malignant Australian Aboriginal spirit.

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Mamaragan

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Mamaragan or Namarrkun is a lightning god who speaks with thunder as his voice.

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Mangar-kunjer-kunja

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, specifically of the Arrernte people of Central Australia, Mangar-kunjer-kunja is a lizard god who created humans.

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Mar'rallang

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Mar'rallang was the name shared by twin sisters.

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Max Charlesworth

Maxwell John Charlesworth AO FAHA (30 December 1925 – 2 June 2014) was an Australian philosopher and public intellectual.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 1–1000

050 | 50 Virginia || – || Verginia, Roman legendary heroine.

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Meteorite Men

Meteorite Men is a documentary reality television series featuring two meteorite hunters.

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Milatjari Pumani

Milatjari Pumani (born 1928) is an Aboriginal Australian artist from Mimili in South Australia.

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Minawara and Multultu

In Aboriginal mythology, Minawara and Multultu were the legendary ancestors of the Nambutji tribe.

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Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Mokoi

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Murngin), Mokoi (lit. "evil spirit") is an evil spirit who killed sorcerers who used black magic.

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Mormo

Mormo (Mormō) was a female spirit in Greek folklore, whose name was invoked by mothers and nurses to frighten children to keep them from misbehaving.

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Mount Beerwah

Mount Beerwah is the highest of the ten volcanic plugs in the Glass House Mountains range, 22 km north of Caboolture in South East Queensland, Australia.

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Mount Bonython

Mount Bonython (above sea level) is one of two major peaks in the Adelaide hills visible from Adelaide.

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Mount Oxley (New South Wales)

Mount Oxley (Aboriginal: Oombi Oombi) is a hill situated from Bourke in the Far West region of New South Wales in outback Australia.

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Mount Tibrogargan

Mount Tibrogargan is one of the many mountains in the Glass House Mountains National Park, north-northwest of Brisbane, Australia.

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Mount Woodroffe

Mount Woodroffe is South Australia's highest peak, at 1,435 metres.

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Mythology of Australia

Australian mythology stems largely from Europeans who colonised the country from 1788, subsequent domestic innovation, as well as other immigrant and Indigenous Australian traditions, many of which relate to Dreamtime stories.

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Ngaanyatjarra

The Ngaanyatjarra, also known as the Nana, are an Indigenous Australian cultural group of Western Australia.

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Ngariman

In Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Karadjeri), Ngariman is a quoll-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri, two dingo gods and sons of Dilga, an earth goddess.

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Ngilgi Cave

Ngilgi Cave, previously known as Yallingup Cave, is a Karst cave to the northeast of Yallingup, in the southwest of Western Australia.

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Njirana

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Njirana is a god, father of Julana, who was alive during the Dreamtime.

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Nogomain

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Nogomain (or Nogamain) is a god who gives spirit children to mortal parents.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Numakulla

In Australian aboriginal mythology, the Numakulla (or Numbakulla) were two sky gods who created all life on Earth, including humans, from the Inapertwa.

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Numen

Numen, pl.

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Obdurodon

Obdurodon is an extinct monotreme genus containing four species.

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Obdurodon tharalkooschild

Obdurodon tharalkooschild is an extinct species of platypus in the genus Obdurodon.

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 192016 September 1993) was an Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator.

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Patricia Wrightson

Patricia Wrightson OBE (19 June 1921 – 15 March 2010) was an Australian writer of several highly regarded and influential children's books.

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Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka

Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka (late 1920s – 1999) was an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Pitjantjatjara

The Pitjantjatjara are an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert.

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Prayer

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship, typically a deity, through deliberate communication.

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Protoplast (religion)

A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of mankind in a creation story (as in Adam and Eve), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).

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Pulpurru Davies

Pulpurru Davies is an Aboriginal artist from central Australia.

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Pundjel

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Pundjel is a creator god who invented most of the skills used by Australian Aborigines, including religious rites.

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Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

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Quinkan rock art

Quinkan rock art refers to a large body of locally, nationally and internationally significant Australian Aboriginal rock art of a style characterized by their unique representations of "Quinkans" (an Aboriginal mythological being, often spelt "Quinkin"), found among the sandstone escarpments around the small town of Laura, Queensland (aka Quinkan region or Quinkan country)Cole,N & Buhrich, A 2012.

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Quinkana

Quinkana is an extinct genus of mekosuchine crocodylians that lived in Australia from about 24 million to about 40,000 years ago.

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Rainbows in culture

The rainbow, a natural phenomenon noted for its design and its place in the sky, has been a favorite component of art and religion throughout history.

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Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Religion in Australia

Religion in Australia is diverse.

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Robert Ingpen

Robert Roger Ingpen AM, FRSA (born 13 October 1936) is an Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer.

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Sky

The sky (or celestial dome) is everything that lies above the surface of the Earth, including the atmosphere and outer space.

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Thardid Jimbo

Thardid Jimbo is a character in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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The Arkaroo

In the dreamtime of Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Arkaroo is a serpent who drank all the waters of Lake Frome in South Australia, the latter remaining a large salt pan most of the time.

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The Dreaming (comics)

The Dreaming is a fictional place, a comic book location published by DC Comics.

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The Magic of Reality

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True is a 2011 book by the British biologist Richard Dawkins, with illustrations by Dave McKean.

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The Nargun and the Stars

The Nargun and The Stars is a children's fantasy novel set in Australia, written by Patricia Wrightson.

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The Nargun and the Stars (TV series)

The Nargun and The Stars is a children's fantasy mini-series based on the award-winning novel of the same name written by Patricia Wrightson.

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Thinan-malkia

Thinan-malkia is an evil spirit in Australian Aboriginal mythology that captures victims with nets that entangle their feet.

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Thomas Tjapaltjarri

Thomas Tjapaltjarri (born Tamayinya Tjapangati, also often known as Tamlik) is an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Tiddalik

The tale of Tiddalik the Frog is a legend from Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Timbarra Gold Mine

The Timbarra Gold Mine was a highly controversial gold mine located on the Timbarra Plateau, at the head waters of the Clarence River, near Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia.

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Tingari

The Tingari (Tingarri) cycle in Australian Aboriginal mythology embodies a vast network of Aboriginal Dreaming (tjukurpa) songlines that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia (Graham 2002).

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Tjinimin

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Tjinimin is the ancestor of the Australian peoples.

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Trickster

In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.

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Ulanji

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Ulanji is a snake-ancestor of the Binbinga.

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Umbriel (moon)

Umbriel is a moon of Uranus discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell.

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Underworld

The underworld is the world of the dead in various religious traditions, located below the world of the living.

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Ungud

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Ungud is a snake god who is sometimes male and sometimes female.

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Urreligion

Urreligion (ur- being a Germanic prefix for original, primitive, elder, primeval, or proto-) is a notion of an "original" or "oldest" form of religious tradition.

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Vincent Forrester

Vincent Forrester (born 1952) is an Aboriginal Australian activist, artist and community leader.

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Wagyl

The Wagyl (alternative spelling Waugl, Waugal, Waugyl or Waagal) is, according to Noongar culture, a snakelike dreamtime creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning Rivers and other waterways and landforms around present day Perth and the south-west of Western Australia The Rainbow Serpent or Wagyl as it was known in the South West of Western Australia created many the local landscape features between the Porongarups (Spirit (.

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Wala (goddess)

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Wala is a sun goddess who lived with her sister, Bara, and her sister-in-law, Madalait.

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Walala Tjapaltjarri

Walala Tjapaltjarri (born Walala Tjapangati) is an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Wandjina

The Wandjina (sometimes Wondjina) are cloud and rain spirits from Australian Aboriginal mythology that are depicted prominently in rock art in Australia.

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Wangaibon

The Wangaibon are a tribe of Indigenous Australians who traditionally lived between Nyngan, the headwaters of Bogan Creek and on Tigers Camp and Boggy Cowal creeks and west to Ivanhoe, New South Wales.

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Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (born late 1950s) is an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Warlugulong

Warlugulong (1977) is an acrylic on canvas painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.

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Warrandyte, Victoria

Warrandyte is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District.

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Wathaurong

Wathaurong, also called the Wathaurung and Wadawurrung, are an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the area near Melbourne, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula.

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Wati-kutjara

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Wati kutjara (also Wati kutjarra or Wadi Gudjara) are two young lizard-men (totem: goanna) who, in the Dreaming, travelled all over the Western Desert.

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Wawalag

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Wawalag were a pair of sisters who were daughters of Djanggawul.

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Wingu Tingima

Wingu Tingima (died 8 March 2010) was an Aboriginal artist from central Australia.

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Wollunqua

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Wollunqua (or Wollunka, Wollunkua) is a snake-god of rain and fertility, who emerged from a watering hole in the Murschison Mountains.

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Wuluwaid

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Wuluwaid (see also Wuluwait) is a rain god.

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Wunda

Wunda is a dark spirit in Indigenous Australian aboriginal mythology.

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Wunda (crater)

Wunda is a large crater on the surface of Uranus' moon Umbriel.

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Wurrunna

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Wurrunna is a culture hero.

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Wurruri

In the Aboriginal mythology of the Encounter Bay tribe, in Australia, Wurruri is an old woman who appears in the myth of how the different languages came about.

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Wurugag and Waramurungundi

In Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Gunwinggu), Wurugag and Waramurungundi are the first man and woman, respectively.

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Wurundjeri

The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Wurundjeri language group, in the Kulin alliance.

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Yalti Napangati

Yalti Napangati (born around 1970) is an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Yalungur

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Yalungur is a great bird, an eagle or hawk.

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Yangoor (crater)

Yangoor is the largest known crater on the surface of the Uranian moon Ariel.

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Yara-ma-yha-who

The Yara-ma-yha-who is a legendary creature found in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Yawkyawk

The Likanaya is a female creature originating in Australian Aboriginal mythology.

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Yee-Na-Pah

Yee-Na-Pah is a figure in Aboriginal mythology.

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Yhi

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Gamilaraay peoples), Yhi is a goddess of light and creation, and a solar deity.

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Yilpi Adamson

Imiyari "Yilpi" Adamson (born 1954) is an Aboriginal artist from central Australia.

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Yukultji Napangati

Yukultji Napangati is an Australian Aboriginal artist.

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Yurlungur

In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Murngin), Yurlungur is a copper snake who was awakened from a deep sleep by the odor of a woman's menstrual blood.

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References

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

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