The Wagyl is, according to the culture of a certain aboriginal people, a snakelike dreamtime creature responsible for the creation of the major rivers and other waterways and landforms around their city & surrounding regions.
A superior being, the Rainbow Serpent created the universe and the people. The Rainbow Serpent delegated Wagyl, a lesser, but nonetheless powerful, deity to create and protect the rivers, lakes, springs and wildlife. The people were appointed as the guardians of the land by the Wagyl. The Wagyl was seen by certain tribal elders who spoke to the dreamtime being.
The rivers are said to represent the body of the Wagyl, which meandered over the land creating the curves and contours of the hills and gullies. The being is strongly associated with rivers and lakes and is supposed to still to reside in the waters deep beneath the springs.
As the Wagyl slithered over the land, his tracks shaped the sand dunes, his body scoured out the course of the rivers; where he occasionally stopped for a rest, he created bays and lakes. Piles of rocks are said to be his droppings, and such sites are considered sacred. As he moved, his scales scraped off and become the forests and woodlands of the region.
The rainbow serpent could also be seen in, and descended from the band of stars spread across the sky, which form the milky-way galaxy.
The “Wagyl stories” represent the survival of oral traditions passed down for tens of thousands of years by Aboriginals and many of them have their roots in, and are accurate documentation of certain historical occurrences, making them some of the oldest histories in the world, as we shall examine shortly...
Our story begins through the eyes a British anthropologist named Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. In 1926 he noticed a common thread that wove through Aboriginal myth across the Australian continent.
They all tell variations of a single (common) myth which speaks of an unusually powerful, creative & often dangerous snake or serpent, sometimes of enormous size. The serpent was said to be closely associated with the rainbow, rain, rivers, and deep waterholes.
The snake had many names across Australia, and parts of the story would vary from tribe to tribe, but essentially it was the same tale. Radcliffe-Brown coined the term Rainbow Serpent, a name which is still in use today by people and institutions all over the world to refer to the pan-Australian myth & as a symbol of Aboriginal mythology in general.
This 'Rainbow Serpent' is generally and variously identified by those who tell the 'Rainbow Serpent' myths, as a snake of some enormous size often living within the deepest waterholes of Australia's waterways; It is known both as a benevolent protector of its people and as a malevolent punisher of law breakers. The rainbow serpent's mythology is closely linked to land, water, life, social relationships and fertility. Descended from that larger being visible as a dark streak in the Milky Way, it reveals itself to people in this world as a rainbow as it moves through water and the rain, shaping landscapes, naming and singing of places, dreaming them into being.- wikipedia
The Rainbow Serpent is traditionally associated with ceremonies to do with fertility and abundance, as well as the organisation of the community and the keeping of peace.
The belief in the Rainbow Snake, a personification of fertility, richness in propagation of plants and animals and rain, is common throughout Australia. It is a creator of human beings, having life-giving powers that send conception spirits to all the waterholes. It is responsible for regenerating rains, and also for storms and floods when it acts as an agent of punishment against those who transgress the law or upset it in any way.
Rainbow Serpent could be mischievous, swallowing and sometimes drowning certain people yet strengthening and endowing the knowledgeable with rainmaking and healing powers. It would blight others with sores, weakness, illness, and death. Australia's Bunyip was identified as a 'Rainbow Serpent' myth of the afore-mentioned kind.
"It swallows people in great floods and regurgitates their bones, which turn into stone, thus documenting such events. Rainbow snakes can also enter a man and endow him with magical powers, or leave 'little rainbows', their progeny, within his body, which could potentially also make him ail and die. As the regenerative and reproductive power in nature and human beings, it is the main character in the region's major rituals."[i]
The rainbow serpent is the closest thing to a unified symbol of Australian-Aboriginal native mythology and philosophy. It is one of their oldest and original concepts as it is part of their creation mythology. Thus it is spread throughout the tribes of the Australian continent as it was brought with the tribes as they frontiered the land after crossing in to Australia through Torres Strait 40-100,000 thousand years ago.
No one knows for sure when Aboriginals crossed into Australia but the oldest evidence is a skeleton called the Mungo man, which was found in Lake Mungo NSW. He is dated at between 40-68,000 years old. His exact age is still disputed, and New South Wales is a fair way inland...
Wonambi Naracoortensis
The myth of the Rainbow serpent is sometimes associated with Wonambi Naracoortensis, a large, ancient snake, one species of the now extinct Australian megafauna. Megafauna was a race of gigantic prehistoric animal species, many of which co-existed at the same time as ancient Aboriginals and can be found depicted in their rock art.
Named by M.J. Smith, in 1976 for the region of Naracoorte in South Australia where it was found, Wonambi Naracoortensis was a giant 5-6 metre-long snake. It's family of constrictor snakes contains only 2 known species in Australia.
The other species is Wonambi Barriei which has been found in Western Australia. Naracoortensis was first described from fossils collected at Naracoorte and Riversleigh in South Australia, it was the first extinct snake to be found in Australia.
Both Naracoorte and Riversleigh have turned out fossils providing crucial evidence of the evolution of the native fauna of Australia. These two sites in particular are especially important for the extreme diversity and the magnificent preservation of their fossils. These sites have helped scientists to understand the history of animal lineages in modern Australia, the world's most isolated continent. The Naracoorte Fossil Mammal Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994.
The discovery of this snake provided scientific evidence to support the fact that Aboriginals had been handing down the history of this species through their oral traditions & had kept the tale alive in their memory for up to 50,000 years. There is also evidence that they did similar things, accurately documenting the eruption of ancient volcanos some 30,000 years ago in Australia. See Tower Hill on the great ocean road just outside Warnambool in Victoria. The rainbow serpent myths are another example of how great occurrences from history often tend to fuse with mythology over the course of great time.
The name Wonambi is derived from the description, told by the local Aboriginal people of Naracoorte, about a serpent of the Dreamtime. This serpent was of course the Rainbow Serpent. The Wagyl snake of the Western Australian Noongar people is thought to correlate to the South Australian people's Wonambi snake, indicating that this creature was once found across the continent. The family of this species of snake, Madtsoiidae, became extinct in other parts of the world around 55 million years ago, but new species continued to evolve in Australia, the last known to have existed, became extinct only in the last 50 000 years.Interestingly enough Naracoorte is not far from earth-grid point 44. If you are into that sort of thing.[ii]
Wonambi seems to have been an ambush predator. Rather than using venom, the animal would kill its prey by constriction. The head of the Wonambi was small, restricting the size of its prey but you can imagine the terror felt by aboriginal tribe members as they expected themselves (or their children) to be ambushed by a hunting serpent the length of 3 or 4 men put end to end!
Wonambi naracoortensis lived during the Pleistocene Ice age period, in natural sun-traps beside local waterholes (Sound familiar?). They would ambush kangaroo, wallaby and other prey coming to the water to drink. For this reason, children were forbidden in Aboriginal culture to play at such places, and only allowed to visit when accompanied by an adult.
-Wikipedia
Plotting the locations of the habitats & fossil locations of this snake in Western Australia has been found to closely align with areas the Noongar people regard as sacred sites.
Australian scientist Tim Flannery claims that this animal, along with other Australian megafauna, became extinct (partly) as a result of activities of the Australian Aborigines, for example firestick farming.[iii]
History of the Serpent
The word serpent was traditionally used in a specifically mythic or religious context, signifying a snake that is to be regarded not as a mundane natural phenomenon, but as the bearer of some potent symbolic value. Snakes have been associated with some of the oldest rituals known to humankind. The serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols.
The serpent was a very important social and religious symbol, revered by the Maya. Mayan mythology describes serpents as being the vehicles by which celestial bodies, such as the sun and stars, cross the heavens. The shedding of their skin made them a symbol of rebirth and renewal.
They were so revered, that one of the main Mesoamerican deities, Quetzalcoatl, was represented as a feathered serpent. The name means "precious serpent". Like Australian Aborigines’, Mayan Elders would also communicate with a being that they called the vision serpent
Wagyl อยู่ ตามวัฒนธรรมบางสงวนคน สัตว์ snakelike ดรีมชอบสร้างแม่น้ำสำคัญอื่น ๆ การบ้าน และ landforms รอบ ๆ ตัวเมืองและรอบ ๆเป็นห้องซูพีเรีย งูสายรุ้งสร้างจักรวาลและคน งูสายรุ้งมอบหมาย Wagyl คำน้อย แต่พระเจ้ากระนั้นมีประสิทธิภาพ การสร้าง และปกป้องแม่น้ำ ทะเลสาบ น้ำพุ และสัตว์ป่า คนถูกแต่งตั้งเป็นผู้ปกครองของแผ่นดิน โดย Wagyl Wagyl ได้เห็น โดยเฉพาะผู้สูงอายุชาวที่พูดเป็นดรีมน้ำจะกล่าวถึงเนื้อหาของ Wagyl ซึ่ง meandered ผ่านที่ดินสร้างเส้นโค้งและรูปทรงของภูเขาและ gullies จะขอเชื่อมโยงกับแม่น้ำและทะเลสาบ และควรจะยังคงอยู่ในน้ำลึกใต้สปริงจะเป็น Wagyl ที่ slithered เหนือแผ่นดิน เพลงของเขารูปเที่ยวทราย ร่างกายของเขา scoured ออกของแม่น้ำ ซึ่งบางครั้งเขาหยุดสำหรับการพักผ่อน เขาสร้างอ่าวและทะเลสาบ กองหินกล่าวได้ว่า เป็นมูลของเขา และเว็บไซต์ดังกล่าวถือว่าศักดิ์สิทธิ์ ขณะที่เขาย้าย เครื่องชั่งของเขาขูดออก และกลายเป็น ป่าไม้และวู้ดแลนด์ภาคงูสายรุ้งอาจยังเห็นใน และสืบเชื้อสายจากวงดาวที่แพร่กระจายไปทั่วท้องฟ้า ซึ่งเป็นกาแล็กซี่ทางน้ำนมThe “Wagyl stories” represent the survival of oral traditions passed down for tens of thousands of years by Aboriginals and many of them have their roots in, and are accurate documentation of certain historical occurrences, making them some of the oldest histories in the world, as we shall examine shortly...Our story begins through the eyes a British anthropologist named Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. In 1926 he noticed a common thread that wove through Aboriginal myth across the Australian continent.They all tell variations of a single (common) myth which speaks of an unusually powerful, creative & often dangerous snake or serpent, sometimes of enormous size. The serpent was said to be closely associated with the rainbow, rain, rivers, and deep waterholes.The snake had many names across Australia, and parts of the story would vary from tribe to tribe, but essentially it was the same tale. Radcliffe-Brown coined the term Rainbow Serpent, a name which is still in use today by people and institutions all over the world to refer to the pan-Australian myth & as a symbol of Aboriginal mythology in general.This 'Rainbow Serpent' is generally and variously identified by those who tell the 'Rainbow Serpent' myths, as a snake of some enormous size often living within the deepest waterholes of Australia's waterways; It is known both as a benevolent protector of its people and as a malevolent punisher of law breakers. The rainbow serpent's mythology is closely linked to land, water, life, social relationships and fertility. Descended from that larger being visible as a dark streak in the Milky Way, it reveals itself to people in this world as a rainbow as it moves through water and the rain, shaping landscapes, naming and singing of places, dreaming them into being.- wikipediaThe Rainbow Serpent is traditionally associated with ceremonies to do with fertility and abundance, as well as the organisation of the community and the keeping of peace.The belief in the Rainbow Snake, a personification of fertility, richness in propagation of plants and animals and rain, is common throughout Australia. It is a creator of human beings, having life-giving powers that send conception spirits to all the waterholes. It is responsible for regenerating rains, and also for storms and floods when it acts as an agent of punishment against those who transgress the law or upset it in any way.Rainbow Serpent could be mischievous, swallowing and sometimes drowning certain people yet strengthening and endowing the knowledgeable with rainmaking and healing powers. It would blight others with sores, weakness, illness, and death. Australia's Bunyip was identified as a 'Rainbow Serpent' myth of the afore-mentioned kind."It swallows people in great floods and regurgitates their bones, which turn into stone, thus documenting such events. Rainbow snakes can also enter a man and endow him with magical powers, or leave 'little rainbows', their progeny, within his body, which could potentially also make him ail and die. As the regenerative and reproductive power in nature and human beings, it is the main character in the region's major rituals."[i]The rainbow serpent is the closest thing to a unified symbol of Australian-Aboriginal native mythology and philosophy. It is one of their oldest and original concepts as it is part of their creation mythology. Thus it is spread throughout the tribes of the Australian continent as it was brought with the tribes as they frontiered the land after crossing in to Australia through Torres Strait 40-100,000 thousand years ago.No one knows for sure when Aboriginals crossed into Australia but the oldest evidence is a skeleton called the Mungo man, which was found in Lake Mungo NSW. He is dated at between 40-68,000 years old. His exact age is still disputed, and New South Wales is a fair way inland...Wonambi NaracoortensisThe myth of the Rainbow serpent is sometimes associated with Wonambi Naracoortensis, a large, ancient snake, one species of the now extinct Australian megafauna. Megafauna was a race of gigantic prehistoric animal species, many of which co-existed at the same time as ancient Aboriginals and can be found depicted in their rock art.Named by M.J. Smith, in 1976 for the region of Naracoorte in South Australia where it was found, Wonambi Naracoortensis was a giant 5-6 metre-long snake. It's family of constrictor snakes contains only 2 known species in Australia.The other species is Wonambi Barriei which has been found in Western Australia. Naracoortensis was first described from fossils collected at Naracoorte and Riversleigh in South Australia, it was the first extinct snake to be found in Australia.Both Naracoorte and Riversleigh have turned out fossils providing crucial evidence of the evolution of the native fauna of Australia. These two sites in particular are especially important for the extreme diversity and the magnificent preservation of their fossils. These sites have helped scientists to understand the history of animal lineages in modern Australia, the world's most isolated continent. The Naracoorte Fossil Mammal Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994.The discovery of this snake provided scientific evidence to support the fact that Aboriginals had been handing down the history of this species through their oral traditions & had kept the tale alive in their memory for up to 50,000 years. There is also evidence that they did similar things, accurately documenting the eruption of ancient volcanos some 30,000 years ago in Australia. See Tower Hill on the great ocean road just outside Warnambool in Victoria. The rainbow serpent myths are another example of how great occurrences from history often tend to fuse with mythology over the course of great time.The name Wonambi is derived from the description, told by the local Aboriginal people of Naracoorte, about a serpent of the Dreamtime. This serpent was of course the Rainbow Serpent. The Wagyl snake of the Western Australian Noongar people is thought to correlate to the South Australian people's Wonambi snake, indicating that this creature was once found across the continent. The family of this species of snake, Madtsoiidae, became extinct in other parts of the world around 55 million years ago, but new species continued to evolve in Australia, the last known to have existed, became extinct only in the last 50 000 years.Interestingly enough Naracoorte is not far from earth-grid point 44. If you are into that sort of thing.[ii]
Wonambi seems to have been an ambush predator. Rather than using venom, the animal would kill its prey by constriction. The head of the Wonambi was small, restricting the size of its prey but you can imagine the terror felt by aboriginal tribe members as they expected themselves (or their children) to be ambushed by a hunting serpent the length of 3 or 4 men put end to end!
Wonambi naracoortensis lived during the Pleistocene Ice age period, in natural sun-traps beside local waterholes (Sound familiar?). They would ambush kangaroo, wallaby and other prey coming to the water to drink. For this reason, children were forbidden in Aboriginal culture to play at such places, and only allowed to visit when accompanied by an adult.
-Wikipedia
Plotting the locations of the habitats & fossil locations of this snake in Western Australia has been found to closely align with areas the Noongar people regard as sacred sites.
Australian scientist Tim Flannery claims that this animal, along with other Australian megafauna, became extinct (partly) as a result of activities of the Australian Aborigines, for example firestick farming.[iii]
History of the Serpent
The word serpent was traditionally used in a specifically mythic or religious context, signifying a snake that is to be regarded not as a mundane natural phenomenon, but as the bearer of some potent symbolic value. Snakes have been associated with some of the oldest rituals known to humankind. The serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols.
The serpent was a very important social and religious symbol, revered by the Maya. Mayan mythology describes serpents as being the vehicles by which celestial bodies, such as the sun and stars, cross the heavens. The shedding of their skin made them a symbol of rebirth and renewal.
They were so revered, that one of the main Mesoamerican deities, Quetzalcoatl, was represented as a feathered serpent. The name means "precious serpent". Like Australian Aborigines’, Mayan Elders would also communicate with a being that they called the vision serpent
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