Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Pundjel" | Australia | A creator god who invented most of the skills used by Australian Aborigines, including religious rites. He was very much involved in the initiation of boys into manhood. |
God name "Puru kupali" | Australia | The creator god of the Jinini. Australia |
Goddess name "Taiaai" | Australian aboriginal | Snake god. His consorts include the snake goddesses Mantya, Tuknampa and Uka. He is revered mainly by tribal groups living on the western seaboard of the Cape York peninsula in northern queensland. Taipan has the typical attributes of many other Australian snake gods, including the Rainbow snake. He exercises judgment over life or death and possesses great wisdom, a universal characteristic of serpents. He is able to kill or cure and is the deity who originally fashioned the blood of living things during the Dreamtime. The imagery of the snake god is closely linked with aboriginal shamanism and with the healing rituals of shamans.... |
God name "Thurremlin" | Australia | God of påśśage, from adolescence to manhood Australia |
Goddess name "Ungamilia" | Australia | Goddess of the evening star. Australia |
God name "Ungud" | Australia | A snake god who is sometimes male and sometimes female. He is åśśociated with Rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans. Australia |
"Wagyl" | Australia | A snakelike creature who created the waterways in and around the south-west of Western Australia |
Goddess name "Walo" | Australia | Goddess of war and the Sun. Australia |
"Waramurungundi" | Australian | The first woman. Australian Aboriginal |
"Wati-kutjara" | Australian | Lizard men. Australian Aboriginal |
"Wawalag" | Greek | Sisters who were daughters of Djanggawul. Australian Aboriginal |
Spirit name "Wiradyuri" | Australia | The ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi, as well as being an important creator spirit or culture hero of the Eora, the Darkinjung, the Wiradjuri, and several other eastern Australian language groups. |
"Wolaro" | Australia | The creator of the sky of heaven and earth and of everything that walks, crawls, swims or flies. Australia |
God name "Wollunqua" | Australia | A snake-god of Rain and fertility. Australian Aboriginal |
Spirit name "Wondjina" | Australia | Cloud and Rain spirits. Australian Aboriginal |
God name "Wuluwaid" | Australia | A Rain god. Australian Aboriginal |
"Wuragag" | Australia | First man. Australian Aboriginal |
Goddess name "Wuriupranili" | Australia | Solar goddess who carries a torch that is the Sun. Australian Aboriginal |