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Ozzie reads the famous book The Rainbow Serpent, by Dick Roughsey - a timeless classic from the Dreamtime. This book tells the tale of how the Rainbow Serpen.
Aboriginal Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent or snake is part of the philosophies of Aboriginal people in various parts of Australia, but is best known in Arnhem Land. The great Rainbow Serpent is an immortal and creating God in Aboriginal mythology and a popular image in Aboriginal Australian art. The connection between snake and rainbow suggests the cycle of seasons.
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The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity (also known as Wagyl, Wuagyl, etc.) often seen as a creator god and a common motif in the art and religion of Aboriginal Australia . It is named for the identification between the shape of a rainbow and that of a snake.
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One of the Great Aboriginal Creation Stories The Rainbow Serpent is considered one of the most powerful and widespread Ancestral Beings of Aboriginal Australia. Rock art featuring this great Ancestral being dates as far back as 6,000 years, making it one of the oldest continuous religious beliefs in the world.
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From OZJThomas The Legend of the Rainbow Serpent Far off in Dreamtime, there were only people, no animals or birds, no trees or bushes, no hills or mountains. The country was flat. Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent, stirred and set off to look for his own tribe. He travelled across Australia from South to North.
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The Rainbow Serpent is one of the most common and well-known Aboriginal stories and is of great importance to Aboriginal society. [4] [5] Not all of the myths in this family describe the ancestral being as a snake. Of those that do, not all of them draw a connection with a rainbow. However, a link with water or rain is typical. [6]
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Known as Ngalyod in the Kuninjku language of Arnhem Land, the Rainbow Serpent is linked to water sources around creeks and rivers, and is responsible for the production of water plants - waterlilies, vines and palms, that grow near water.
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The Rainbow Serpent , also known as the Rainbow Snake, is a creator god and the most important figure in Aboriginal Mythology. There are many different stories told of the Rainbow Serpent,.
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These Pipefish originated from coast of northern Australia from Shark Bay in Western Australia to the Torres Strait and would have been slowly washed inland by the rising seas after the Ice Age. The Aboriginals living inland would have never have seen such a creature.
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Two young men, Bil-bil, or the Rainbow Lorikeet brothers had no shelter and they came to the Rainbow Serpent. They asked for help sheltering from the rain. The rainbow serpent was hungry and tricked the young men "I have no shelter, but you can hide in my mouth. You'll be safe from the rain in there."
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Today Belonging to the single oldest surviving civilisation on earth, the Rainbow Serpent is one of the oldest spiritual beliefs in the world — and it hasn't disappeared in modern times. The iconic creator spirit continues to play a central role in the Dreaming tradition, and influences non-Indigenous art and culture, too.
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The Rainbow Serpent is one of the most well-known Aboriginal creation stories. It is a significant mythological figure in the beliefs and traditions of many Aboriginal people across Australia.
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The Rainbow Serpent is a video clip from the documentary series and website First Australians produced in 2008 by Blackfella Films for SBS Television. First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people.
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Long ago in the Dreamtime a group of Aboriginals were out hunting. After many hours, they grew tired and decided to rest and as they sat around, telling stories and warming their hands by the fire, one of them looked up. There on the horizon was a beautiful multi-coloured arch - a rainbow.
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Rosebank Public School The most widely known Ancestral Being is the Rainbow Serpent, or Rainbow Snake, the English names for the figure that appears in the Dreamings of many different.
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This rainbow is the sign of the removal of the wrath of God from all the people and the sign of prosperity, tranquility, universal peace, the oneness of humanity, and the unity of the world of man." With the spiritual symbol of the Rainbow Serpent, the Aboriginal God of creation has, in a sense, been re-created.