A widely venerated spirit of Aboriginal mythology, associated with the creation of the earth in the Dreamtime.
popular representations in literature reinforce the deity status of the rainbow serpent
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He explained to me where the two rainbow serpents are depicted within these masses of crosshatching.
Finally we reached magnificent Windjana Gorge, a primeval seeming place formed, according to Aboriginal legend, by the rainbow serpent Ungeroo.
I grew up with a full-blooded Aboriginal Grandfather who taught me the Aboriginal lore and Dreamtime stories and the importance of the rainbow serpent.
We have here the Rainbow Serpent so that our dreaming can be shared by everyone.
The paintings contained rainbow serpent imagery.
I'd say everywhere in the north coast, the Rainbow Serpent is important.
The Rainbow Serpent is a symbol not just of one clan, but of associations of clans.
Taylor sets up the reasons for the popularity of the rainbow serpent image in the Western Arnhem form of Yingarna.
In Australia, the Aborigines associated a giant rainbow serpent with the creation of life.
I attempt to identify the way rainbow serpent mythology has been transformed into an icon of Aboriginal spirituality.