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Myndie c. 1878. The Rainbow Serpent is known by different names by the many different Aboriginal cultures.. Yurlunggur is the name of the "rainbow serpent" according to the Murngin in north-eastern Arnhemland, [8] also styled Yurlungur, [9] [2] Yulunggur, [10] [11] Jurlungur, [12] Julunggur [13] or Julunggul.
It was given the name Wonambi from the description, by the local Aboriginal people, of a serpent of the Dreamtime. 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.
"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 ...
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 ...
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 .
Yawkyawk, Aboriginal 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.
From the ouroboros (a snake eating its own tail in a circle like shape) to the cosmic rainbow serpent, snake dreams can alert you to your state of consciousness and well-being, as well as the ...
The serpent and the rainbow taught humankind the link between blood and life, between menstruation and birth, and the ultimate Vodou sacrament of blood sacrifice." [ 20 ] In Haiti , Ayida-Weddo is said to have crossed the ocean with her husband Damballa to take the ancient knowledge and traditions of Vodou from Africa to the Caribbean.