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Ipilja-ipilja 100ft gecko of Anindilyakwa myth. Adorned with hairs and whiskers. Spews swamp water to make the clouds of the sky, thunder is ipilja-ipilja's roaring. Ipilja-ipilja's home is a swamp filled with deadly waters. Similar to legends of maratji by Tiwi and Iwaidja people.
Aboriginal specialists willing to generalise believe all Aboriginal myths across Australia, in combination, represent a kind of unwritten library within which Aboriginal peoples learn about the world and perceive a peculiarly Aboriginal 'reality' dictated by concepts and values vastly different from those of western societies: [19]
Aboriginal stencil art showing unique clan markers and dreamtime stories symbolising attempts to catch the deceased's spirit. The beginnings of Australian mythology center on the Aboriginal belief system known as Dreamtime, which dates back as far as 65,000 years. Aboriginals believed Earth was created by spiritual beings who physically ...
Bunyip – According to legend, they are said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. Dreamtime – The Dreamtime to Aboriginal Australians is the beginning of time, the creation of knowledge from which their culture began more than 60,000 years ago. Bunyip (1935), artist unknown, from the National Library of Australia
Rainbow Serpent (Australian Aboriginal) – Snake; Rakshasa (Buddhist and Hindu) – Shapeshifting demon; Ramidreju – Extremely long, weasel-like animal; Raróg – Whirlwind spirit; Raven Mocker – Life-draining spirit; Raven Spirit (Native American, Norse, and Siberian) – Trickster spirit; Ratatoskr – Squirrel spirit
Printable version; In other projects ... In Australian Aboriginal folklore, Puckowe is said to be the ... Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
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The Yara-ma-yha-who is a legendary vampiric monster found in Southeastern Australian Aboriginal mythology. [1] [2] The legend is recounted by David Unaipon. [3]According to legend, the creature resembles a little red frog-like man with a very big head, a large mouth with no teeth and suckers on the ends of its hands and feet.