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You can find many similarities between the different groups however:
The Australian Agoriginal culture is based on nature in every aspect. Most of their myhtological heroes are animals common in Australia, the most prominent being the Rainbow Serpent .
Another similarity is the so-called " Dreamtime ". It is often thought of as the time in which the world was created, but correctly discribes the process of the world being called into being.


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  • Alchera (myth)

  • Alcheringa - term used by the Australian Aborigine for the Dreamtime

  • Altjira - the sky god of the Aranda .

  • Anjea - a fertility goddess

  • Bagadjimbiri - two brothers and creator gods

  • Bahloo - the moon goddess

  • Baiame - the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi .

  • Bamapana - a trickster hero who causes discord ( Murngin people)

  • Banaitja - a creator god

  • Beralku - island of the dead

  • Bobbi-Bobbi - a giant snake that lived in the heavens, similar to the Rainbow Serpent.

  • Brolga

  • Bunbulama - rain goddess

  • Bunjil - supreme god of the Kulin

  • Bunyip - a mythical creature said to lurk in billabongs.

  • Daramulum - sky and weather god, patron of shamans, and a lunar deity. ( Wiradhuri and Kamilaroi )

  • Dhakhan - the ancestral god of the Kabi

  • Dilga - goddess of fertility and growth

  • Dirawong - in Bundjalung nation aetiological mythology, Dirawong (a Goanna ) is the Creator Being.

  • Djanggawul - three siblings, two female and one male, who created the landscape of Australia and covered it with flora.

  • Djunkgao - a group of sisters who are associated with floods and ocean currents

  • Dreamtime - central, unifying theme in Aboriginal culture.

  • Eingana - a creator goddess and the mother of all water, animals, and humans

  • Erathipa - a boulder that has the shape of a pregnant woman

  • Galeru - a rainbow snake who swallowed the Djanggawul

  • Gnowee - a solar goddess who lived on Earth before there was a sun

  • Inapertwa - simple creatures with which the Numakulla formed created all life on Earth. ( Aranda )

  • I'wai - I'wai is the culture hero of the Koko Y'ao .

  • Jar'Edo Wens - a god of earthly knowledge and physical might

  • Julana - a lecherous god who surprises women by burrowing beneath the sand

  • Julunggul - a rainbow serpent and fertility goddess

  • Kalseru

  • Karora - a creator god

  • Kidili - an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth ( Mandjindja )

  • Kondole - a mean and rude man who became a whale

  • Kunapipi - mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes

  • Kutjara

  • Makara - the seven sisters who eventually became the Pleiades

  • Mamaragan - a lightning god who speaks with thunder as his voice.

  • Mamu

  • Mangar-kunjer-kunja - a lizard god who created humans.

  • Mar'rallang - name shared by two twin sisters

  • Mimi - fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land

  • Minawara - ancestors of the Nambutji

  • Mokoi - an evil spirit who killed sorcerors who used black magic.

  • Mura-mura - another word for Dreamtime

  • Ngariman - a cat-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri

  • Nogomain - a god who gives spirit children to mortal parents

  • Puckowe - Grandmother spirit who lives in the sky

  • Pundjel - a creator god who invented religious rites.

  • Rainbow Serpent - the inhabitant of permanent waterholes and is in control of water.

  • Tjilpa - ancestor of the cat-people.

  • Tjinimin - ancestor of the Australian peoples

  • Ulanji - a snake-ancestor of the Binbinga.

  • Ungud - a snake god who is sometimes male and sometimes female

  • Wagyl - a snakelike creature who created the waterways in and around the south-west of Western Australia

  • Wahwee

  • Walo - a sun goddess

  • Waramurungundi - the first woman ( Gunwinggu )

  • Wati-kutjara - lizard men

  • Wawalag - pair of sisters who were daughters of Djanggawul

  • Wollunqua - a snake-god of rain and fertility

  • Wondjina - cloud and rain spirits

  • Wuluwaid - a rain god

  • Wuragag - first man ( Gunwinggu )

  • Wuriupranili - solar goddess who carries a torch that is the sun.

  • Wurrunna - a culture hero.

  • Yara-ma-yha-who - a small, vampiric man or humanoid monster,

  • Yowie - a giant beast, resembling a cross between a lizard and an ant.

  • Yhi - a goddess of light and creation, and a solar deity

  • Yohrmum

  • Yurlungur - a copper snake