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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]
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 (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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 .
Sisiutl is a three-headed sea serpent, with one anthropomorphic and two reptilian heads, in Kwakwaka'wakw mythology; Oshunmare is a male and female rainbow serpent in Yoruba mythology; Lastly, another Chinese rainbow myth involves the creator Nüwa 女媧 repairing a crack in the sky caused by the water deity Gong Gong 共工 (cf. 虹). She ...