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Ungud, snake deity associated with rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans; Wagyl, Noongar snakelike creator being; Wati-kutjara, a pair of western Australian lizard-men; Wirnpa a rainmaking snake who created the land around Percival Lakes during the Dreaming; Wondjina, Mowanjum cloud or rain spirits
The Wagyl stories may represent the survival in oral tradition of extinct Australian megafauna, as there was a python-like snake, Wonambi naracoortensis, with a length of five to six metres (16 to 20 ft). [1]
This snake is also brown with darker blotches [63] with iridescent scales. [64] Another candidate is the water python (Liasis fuscus), which is a particularly colourful snake. [66] [67] [g] The carpet snake (Morelia spilota variegata) is considered a form that the Rainbow Serpent can take by the Walmadjari people in northern Western Australia. [54]
Cree syllabics were developed for Ojibwe by James Evans, a missionary in what is now Manitoba in the 1830s. Evans had originally adapted the Latin script to Ojibwe (see Evans system), but after learning of the success of the Cherokee syllabary, [additional citation(s) needed] he experimented with invented scripts based on his familiarity with shorthand and Devanagari.
People performing the Víbora de la Mar game. LA VÍBORA DE LA MAR (lit. The sea snake) is a traditional singing game originating in Mexico. Participants hold hands creating the “snake” and they run around the playground. It is a popular children's game in Mexico and Latin America, and also in Spain where it is known as "pasemisí". This ...
Machine translation from Unicode UTF-8 and UTF-16 can be performed using the Liblouis Braille translation system [35] which includes an Inuktitut Braille translation table. The book ᐃᓕᐊᕐᔪᒃ ᓇᓄᕐᓗ ( The Orphan and the Polar Bear ) became the first work ever translated into Inuktitut Braille, and a copy is held at the ...
The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols.The word is derived from Latin serpens, a crawling animal or snake.Snakes have been associated with some of the oldest rituals known to humankind [1] [2] and represent dual expression [3] of good and evil.
Pintupi (/ ˈ p ɪ n t ə p i, ˈ p ɪ n ə-,-b i /) [3] is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family.It is one of the varieties of the Western Desert Language (WDL).