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  2. Wagyl - Wikipedia

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    [2] [11] In the Dreamtime story of Wave Rock, the Ballardong people believe that the Wagyl shaped the rock's formation. [12] Another rock believed by the Ballardong to have been shaped by the Wagyl is Boyagin Rock , where it is seen as the winter home or the last resting place of the Wagyl.

  3. Wandjina - Wikipedia

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    Wunggurr is a variant on the Rainbow Serpent creator being belief, while the wandjina are local spirits, attached to places, and associated with particular clans. Although some local expressions use the two terms interchangeably, wungurr is a "more diffuse life force animating and underlying the particular manifestations of its power that find ...

  4. Rainbow Serpent - Wikipedia

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    Australian Aboriginal rock painting of the "Rainbow Serpent". The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, [1] known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. It is a common motif in the art and religion of many Aboriginal Australian peoples. [2]

  5. Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology - Wikipedia

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    This 'Rainbow Serpent' is generally and variously identified by those who tell 'Rainbow Serpent' myths, as a snake of some enormous size often living within the deepest waterholes of many of Australia's waterways; descended from that larger being visible as a dark streak in the Milky Way, it reveals itself to people in this world as a rainbow ...

  6. Djabugay - Wikipedia

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    The Djabugay word for their ancestral times, beyond their living memory, (also known as 'Story time' or 'Dreamtime') is bulurru [7] being a time when, for instance, it is told the Rainbow Serpent Gudju Gudju, in the form of a giant carpet snake (aka Budadji) traveled through the country, bartering with families along the way exchanging coastal ...

  7. Ban Ban Springs - Wikipedia

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    "Ban Ban [Springs] is a sacred site and has a Dreamtime association with the Rainbow Serpent which is believed to have surfaced there. It spoke to the elders of the tribe telling them the secrets of the sacred waters and how to use it. The Rainbow Serpent also told of talks he had had with the seven sisters and of the wonders he had seen while ...

  8. Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve - Wikipedia

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    Accounts of local Aboriginal people believing the boulders to be eggs of the mythical Rainbow Serpent are incorrect. [9] In reality, a number of traditional Dreaming stories (none of which are about serpents) have Karlu Karlu as their setting, hence its great importance as a sacred site.

  9. Boobera Lagoon - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous people of the area believe the lagoon is the resting place of Garriya, [2] the Rainbow Serpent, [3] an important figure in dreamtime legend. The lagoon was particularly significant to the Bigambul and Kamilaroi people, [ 4 ] who held the third stage of their joint male initiation ceremonies at this site.