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Daramulum, southeast Australian deity and son of Baiame; Gnowee, solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; her torch is the sun; Karatgurk, seven sisters who represent the Pleiades star cluster; Kondole, man who became the first whale; Lo-an-tuka, wife of Loo-errn; Loo-errn, spirit ancestor and guardian of the Brataualung people
Australian Aboriginal gods (27 P) G. Australian Aboriginal goddesses (12 P) R. Rainbow serpent deities (6 P) Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal deities"
Pages in category "Australian Aboriginal goddesses" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Australian anthropologists willing to generalise suggest Aboriginal myths still being performed across Australia by Aboriginal peoples serve an important social function amongst their intended audiences: justifying the received ordering of their daily lives; [16] helping shape peoples' ideas; and assisting to influence others' behaviour. [17]
Goddesses depicted as cats or whose myths and iconography are associated with cats. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A.
Cat goddesses (3 C, 7 P) Cat gods (2 P) This page was last edited on 15 September 2023, at 22:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Bastet, cat goddess sometimes associated with fertility; Hathor, goddess of music, beauty, love, sexuality and fertility; Heqet, frog-goddess of fertility; Heryshaf, god of creation and fertility; Isis, goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility; Knum, Creator of the human body, source of the Nile, associated with fertility/ creation of life
Since European settlement, Australian mythology shifted away from Dreamtime and focused more on the ideals of the average Australian worker. [5] A strong central theme was rebellion, with stories of common heroes who "laugh in the face of adversity, face up to great difficulties and deliberately go against authority and the establishment". [1]