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Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity that is reputed to live in the Outback.The creature has its roots in Aboriginal oral history. In parts of Queensland, they are known as quinkin (or as a type of quinkin), and as joogabinna, [1] in parts of New South Wales, they are called Ghindaring, jurrawarra, myngawin, puttikan, doolaga, gulaga and thoolagal. [1]
Much of this landscape with its minute Gandangara toponymic descriptions considered to be "one of the best documented Aboriginal cultural landscapes", was submerged with the construction of the Warragamba Dam after WW2. [21] At that time animals were human, and collectively the animal people of that pristine world were known as Burringilling.
This name is one of the names used on the widely used Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. Early versions of the map also divided Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East ...
Various factors affect Aboriginal people's self-identification as Aboriginal, including a growing pride in culture, solidarity in a shared history of dispossession (including the Stolen Generations), and, among those are fair-skinned, an increased willingness to acknowledge their ancestors, once considered shameful. Aboriginal identity can be ...
Red Hands Cave, Blue Mountains National Park, outside Glenbrook, contains large collection of hand stencils. Stonewoman Aboriginal Area, Inverell area, features Tingha Stonewoman rock formation, a teaching and ceremonial site. [21] Tamarama, Sydney. A large carving of a whale and fish is located beside the path from Bondi Beach to Tamarama.
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.
They once occupied a vast area in central New South Wales, on the plains running north and south to the west of the Blue Mountains. The area was known as "the land of the three rivers", [ 13 ] the Wambuul (Macquarie) , the Kalare later known as the Lachlan and the Murrumbidgee , or Murrumbidjeri .
Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane, derived from the Turrbal language. Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons: [citation needed] Historically, European explorers and surveyors may have asked local Aboriginal people the name of a place, and named it accordingly.