- The
Wawalag sisters, also
written as
Wauwaluk Wawilak Waggilak, Wagilag, or Wawalik, are
ancestral creator beings whose story is part of
widespread sacred...
-
Yirritja moiety of the Yolŋu people.
Dhuwa moieties. 1.
Wagilak (Wagelag,
Wawilak, Waurilak, Nunydjulpi, Nundjulpi, Nundjulbi) 2.
Manggura (Manggurra). Yirritja...
- on the "rock python",
regarding the
rainbow serpent in the myth of the
Wawilak sisters among the
Yonglu people. In some
tellings of the
sisters myth,...
-
Birrinydjalki or Gandjalala), the "Sugar Bag Hunters", who had
originally been
Wäwilak and then Mandhalpuy.
Eventually the
Yolngu prevailed and the name Nhulunbuy...
- were.: 52–53
Snakes often appear in
metaformic mythologies, such as the
Wawilak Sisters Snake myth of
Australian aboriginal people.: 57–58
Deities from...
- gave
birth to the clan at Yalangbara. He also
painted the
story of the
Wawilak sisters. The
expression of
these stories was part of his responsibility...
-
bleeding as a
technique stolen by men from
ancestral women –
known as the Two
Wawilak Sisters – who once
conjured up the
Snake by
synchronizing their menstrual...
