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Where Dragons Dwell
Series Atlas Archive
Rainbow Serpent
Aboriginal Australian
Region
Australia
Era
Living Dreaming traditions
Collection note
WDD-AUS-001
Across many Aboriginal Australian traditions, the Rainbow Serpent is a being of origin, movement, and living law. "Rainbow Serpent" is an English collective label for related but distinct ancestral beings - Ngalyod to the Kunwinjku, Wagyl to the Noongar, Ngatyi to the Barkandji - who shape waterways, carry rain, and mark the land as formed by ancestral presence rather than empty ground.
Role
Ancestral creator and law-bearing serpent
Catalog no.
WDD-AUS-001
Series
Atlas Archive
In Australia, the serpent moves through rain, earth, and the deep memory of creation.
Where Dragons Dwell
Series Atlas Archive
Rainbow Serpent
Aboriginal Australian
Region
Australia
Era
Living Dreaming traditions
Collection note
WDD-AUS-001
Across many Aboriginal Australian traditions, the Rainbow Serpent is a being of origin, movement, and living law. "Rainbow Serpent" is an English collective label for related but distinct ancestral beings - Ngalyod to the Kunwinjku, Wagyl to the Noongar, Ngatyi to the Barkandji - who shape waterways, carry rain, and mark the land as formed by ancestral presence rather than empty ground.
Role
Ancestral creator and law-bearing serpent
Catalog no.
WDD-AUS-001
Series
Atlas Archive
In Australia, the serpent moves through rain, earth, and the deep memory of creation.