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The generic name comes from Nohoch ("great") and ich'ak ("claw"), a translation of the Greek family name Megalonychidae. The specific name is from Xibalba ("the underworld") and ahkah ("dweller") [181] Nopal (Opuntia cochinellifera) cactus: Nahuatl: From nohpalli, via Spanish [citation needed] Nystalus chacuru (white-eared puffbird) puffbird ...
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]
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 ...
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]
The snake, however, managed to crawl on a little distance (about two miles) to the south to an ochre pan, named Mul'tan'tu. Here she rested, leaving the red, yellow and white ochre deposits found there. The red ochre symbolizes the blood shed by the snake, the white ochre the excreta; while the yellow ochre is the urine.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ] , / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters . Mi'kmaw hieroglyphic writing or Suckerfish script ( Mi'kmawi'sit : Gomgwejui'gasit ) was a writing system for the Mi'kmaw language , later superseded by various Latin scripts which are currently ...
Snake Island in the middle of the river, on the right is Pelican Island and in the background is Goanna Headland. In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically Bundjalung, from the northern New South Wales coast and South-East Queensland) Dirawong is a goanna Ancestral Being who taught humans how to live on the land, as well as important ceremonies and rituals.