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Australian Aboriginal mythology
Articles about Australian Aboriginal mythology within Oceania.
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Widjingara
Widjingara is a name associated in some modern English-language references with Australian Aboriginal mythology, but its identity is not securely established across the traditional records of any single Aboriginal nation…
Wuluwait
Wuluwait is a name associated in some modern accounts with Australian Aboriginal mythology, particularly with a spirit or supernatural being connected with rain, weather, or the sky. The identification is uncertain, howe…
Wuraka
Wuraka is a name associated in some modern lists with Australian Aboriginal mythology, but its identity is not securely established in the surviving record. Unlike better-documented figures such as Baiame, Bunjil, Daramu…
Yalungur
Yalungur is a name associated in some modern reference works with an Australian Aboriginal water or serpent being. The available information is limited, and the name is not supported by a single, widely documented tradit…
Yara-ma-yha-who
Yara-ma-yha-who is a dangerous blood-drinking being associated with Aboriginal tradition in Australia. In commonly repeated accounts, it is a small red figure that waits in a fig tree and attacks people who come within r…
Yhi
Yhi is a name commonly used in modern accounts of Australian Aboriginal mythology for a female being associated with the sun, light, warmth and the awakening of life. Stories connected with Yhi describe light entering a …
Yingarna
Yingarna is an ancestral creator being in the traditions of the Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land in northern Australia. She is commonly described as a powerful female Rainbow Serpent and as an ancestral mother ass…