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Nogomain, a god who gives spirit children to mortal parents; Onur, Karraur lunar deity; Papinijuwari, a type of one-eyed giant which feeds on the bodies of the dead and the blood of the sick; Tjilpa-men, significant mythic figures Aranda, Anmatyerre, Kaytetye, Ngalia, Ilpara and Kukatja stories. Tjilpa is the Arrernte word for quoll.
It involves a vain kangaroo who asks three gods to make him unlike other animals, and sought-after. Two of them, the Little God Nqa and the Middle God Nquing, refuse, and only the third, the Big God Nqong, accepts. The result is Yellow-Dog Dingo trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia, explaining how kangaroos came to have strong legs.
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]
Dingoes and their hybrids co-exist with the native quoll. They also co-occur in the same territory as the introduced European red fox and feral cat, but little is known about the relationships between these three. Dingoes and their hybrids can drive off foxes from sources of water and occasionally eat feral cats.
The Giant Devil Dingo (1973) is a picture book for children by Dick Roughsey. It describes how the dreamtime devil-dingo, Gaiya, of lower Cape York Peninsula mythology was reborn and domesticated to become man's friend and helper. Artwork from the book is held by the National Museum of Australia. [1]
[12] [17] Dingo discovered in 2004 that he had a daughter, named Zoe, from a brief relationship before his marriage. [15] Sally Dingo has authored two books about her husband and family, 2000's Ernie Dingo: King of the Kids and Dingo, The Story of our Mob in 1997. Their marriage broke down in 2011 and Dingo moved to Perth. [18]
Dingo, in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, played by Carol Cleveland; Dingo, an animal-faced superhero from the WildStorm comics universe; Dingo Egret, the protagonist of the video game Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner; Dingo, 'yellow dog dingo' features in "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo", tale 6 of Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Myndie c. 1878. The Rainbow Serpent is known by different names by the many different Aboriginal cultures.. Yurlunggur is the name of the "rainbow serpent" according to the Murngin in north-eastern Arnhemland, [8] also styled Yurlungur, [9] [2] Yulunggur, [10] [11] Jurlungur, [12] Julunggur [13] or Julunggul.