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Explore myths, traditions and legendary beings grouped under Oceania.
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Tjinimin
Tjinimin is a name associated in some modern reference works with an Aboriginal Australian mythological figure, usually described as a trickster, culture hero or ancestral being. The identification is not as securely doc…
Ulanji
Ulanji is a name sometimes presented in modern mythology lists as belonging to an Australian Aboriginal spirit or supernatural being. Its identity, however, is uncertain. Unlike widely documented figures such as the Rain…
Uluru
Uluru is a vast sandstone monolith in the centre of Australia and one of the most important sacred places in the living traditions of the Aṉangu peoples, including the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara. It is often disc…
Waang
Waang is a name associated with a crow or raven ancestral being in some Aboriginal traditions of southeastern Australia. The spelling Waang is especially encountered in material connected with Kulin-speaking peoples of V…
Wati-kutjara
Wati-kutjara, also written Wati Kutjara or Wati-kutjara Tjukurpa, is the name commonly translated as “Two Men” in several Western Desert Aboriginal traditions of Australia. The name generally refers not to one individual…
Walaganda
Walaganda is a name associated in some English-language accounts with an Aboriginal ancestral or sky being of northern Australia. The identity is not uniformly described, however. Australian Aboriginal peoples do not sha…
Wandjina
Wandjina refers to powerful ancestral beings represented in the rock paintings of the Kimberley region of north-western Australia. The figures are especially associated with Wunambal, Ngarinyin and Worrorra peoples, alth…
Wapiya
Wapiya is a name associated in some modern English-language accounts with an Aboriginal Australian spirit or deity of wind and storms. The identification is uncertain, however. Unlike widely documented figures such as th…
Waramurunggundji
Waramurunggundji is an ancestral creator figure associated particularly with Aboriginal traditions of western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Her name is also written as Warramurrungundji, Waramurrungundji and in …
Wawalag
Wawalag refers most often to two ancestral sisters in the traditions of Yolngu peoples of north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. They are also known in English-language sources as the Wawilak o…
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…