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Rainbow Serpent The Wagyl (also written Waugal , Waagal , and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology , from the culture based around the south-west of Western Australia .
The Rainbow Serpent has also appeared as a character in literature. The Lardil people's Dreaming story of the Rainbow Serpent was retold in Dick Roughsey's award-winning Australian children's book The Rainbow Serpent; [33] the Rainbow Serpent has also appeared as a character in comic books such as Hellblazer. [73]
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Book of the Year, 1974: commended for The Giant Devil-Dingo; FAW Patricia Weickhardt Award to an Aboriginal Writer, 1976 for The Rainbow Serpent [7] Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Picture Book of the Year, 1976: winner for The Rainbow Serpent
As Mawu-Lisa created the world, the serpent carried the goddess in its mouth as she shaped the Earth with her creations. As they went across the land, the rainbow serpent's body left behind the canyons, rivers, valleys, and mountains. [16] [17] The rainbow serpent had a twin personality whose red half was male, and whose blue half was female.
The Rainbow Serpent turns around and bites Dirawong on the head. Dirawong then withdraws from the battle in order to eat some herbs to recover from the snakebite. A deposit of red ochre at Goanna Headland is said to originate from the wound where the Rainbow Serpent bit Dirawong. Meanwhile, Rainbow Serpent reaches Evans Head. Dirawong is ...
This serpent, a mythological being commonly referred to by both Aboriginal people and Europeans as the Rainbow Serpent, was often held responsible for the creation of major features of the landscape. The Wagyl of the Western Australian Noongar people is thought to correlate to the South Australian people's Wonambi.
Weston Woods Studios (or simply Weston Woods) is a production company that makes audio and short films based on well-known books for children. [1] It was founded in 1953 by Morton Schindel in Weston, Connecticut, and named after the wooded area near his home.
End of the Rainbow is a stage play with music (or musical drama) by Peter Quilter. The song "Rainbow Demon" by Uriah Heep. "I Can Sing a Rainbow" is a popular American children's song and a nursery rhyme written by Arthur Hamilton, despite the name of the song, not all the colours mentioned are actually colours of the rainbow.