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  2. Rainbow Serpent - Wikipedia

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    One prominent Rainbow Serpent myth is the story of the Wawalag [15] or Wagilag sisters, from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land. [1] According to legend, the sisters are travelling together when the older sister gives birth, and her blood flows to a waterhole where the Rainbow Serpent lives. [15]

  3. Ayida-Weddo - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    Mirragañ a quoll / human inhabitant the Dreaming who went to hunt the rainbow serpent / human inhabitant of the Dreaming Gurangatch Mungoon-Gali giant goanna in Yuwaalaraay myth, married to Kubbitha or Kabbitha the black duck who created the Murrumbidgee River , rival to Ouyouboolooey the black snake who stole Mungoon-Gali's poison for the snakes.

  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. Serpent symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The Rainbow Serpent (also known as the Rainbow Snake) is a major mythological being for Aboriginal people across Australia, although the creation myths associated with it are best known from northern Australia. In Fiji, Ratumaibulu was a serpent god who ruled the underworld and made

  7. List of dragons in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    The Rainbow Serpent of Dahomey mythology. Ayida-Weddo: A loa in Dahomey mythology who is married to Damballa. Ayida-Weddo is also mentioned in Haitian Vodou. Damballa: A loa featured in West African mythology in addition to African-American Vodou. Bida: A serpent of Soninke mythology. Despite being the protectress of the Soninke, she oppressed ...

  8. Wagyl - Wikipedia

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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 .

  9. Rainbows in mythology - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese mythology, Hong is a two-headed dragon that represents the rainbow. In Mesoamerican cultures, Ix Chel is a maternal jaguar goddess associated with rain. Chel means rainbow in the Yucatán Poqomchi' language. Ix Chel wears a serpent headdress and presides principally over birth and healing.