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Australian Aboriginal mythology
Articles about Australian Aboriginal mythology within Oceania.
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Mokoi
Mokoi is a name used in some English-language accounts of Australian Aboriginal supernatural belief for a dangerous spirit associated with death, fear and attacks on sleeping people. The available descriptions are brief …
Muramura
Muramura, also written Mura-mura or with other variations in English-language records, is a collective name associated chiefly with the traditional ancestral beings of the Diyari (Dieri) people of South Australia. Their …
Mopaditis
Mopaditis is a very obscure name associated in some modern reference lists with Australian Aboriginal mythology. Its identity, cultural origin and traditional role are uncertain. Unlike well-documented figures such as Ba…
Mudungkala
Mudungkala is an ancestral being in the traditions of the Tiwi people of northern Australia. The Tiwi live primarily on Melville Island and Bathurst Island, in the Apsley Strait region north of Darwin in the Northern Ter…
Multultu
Multultu is a name associated in some modern references with a dangerous creature of Australian Aboriginal tradition, usually described as a water-dwelling monster. Its identity is uncertain, however. Unlike widely docum…
Mumba
Mumba is a name found in some modern English-language lists of Australian Aboriginal mythological beings, where it is usually described as a dangerous water creature or aquatic spirit. Its identity is uncertain, however.…
Nadubi
Nadubi is a name sometimes listed in modern collections of Australian Aboriginal mythology, but its identity and traditional context are not securely established. Unlike well-documented figures such as Baiame, Bunjil, Da…
Namorodo
Namorodo is a name used in English-language accounts for a dangerous spirit being associated particularly with Aboriginal traditions of western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The name is also written…
Ngalyod
Ngalyod is a powerful ancestral being of western Arnhem Land in northern Australia, especially in Kunwinjku and related Aboriginal traditions. Ngalyod is commonly described in English as a Rainbow Serpent, although that …
Ngurunderi
Ngurunderi is a major ancestral being of the Ngarrindjeri peoples of South Australia. His traditions are associated especially with the lower Murray River, the Coorong, Lake Alexandrina, Lake Albert, Encounter Bay and th…
Njirana
Njirana is a name associated in some modern summaries with an Aboriginal Australian water being described as a mermaid-like woman who lures people into the water. The best-known version of the account says that Njirana a…