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Aboriginal Dreamtime, Indigenous Studies, Aboriginal Education, Rainbow Serpent, Aboriginal Culture, Creation Story, Naidoc Week, Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal Artists

A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. There are many names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate its significance within Aboriginal traditions, most particularly as a symbol of fertility, peace and unity. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains and gorges […]

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painting of the Rainbow Serpent with aboriginals of Australia Rainbow Serpent Art, Rainbow Serpent Aboriginal, The Rainbow Serpent, Daycare Mural, Aboriginal Mythology, Aboriginal Dreamtime, African Traditional Religions, Snake Painting, Rainbow Snake

Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Tiwi Islands The exposure of Aboriginal art to the West had its inception at the aboriginal community of Papunya in the Western Desert of Central Australia. Just like the vivid wildflowers that fill the local ochre terrain in the middle of winter, their art was a rare juxtaposition adapted from the Australian landscape. Although the indigenous art was originally developed for body painting, bark & cave art and ceremonial ground paintings, once the Papunya artists were…

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Rainbow Serpent | Mythology Wiki | Fandom Snake Mythology, Grim Fairy Tales, Aboriginal Language, Aboriginal Australia, Creator God, Feathered Serpent, Rainbow Snake, Sea Snake, Rainbow Serpent

The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity (also known as numerous other names in different Australian Aboriginal languages) often seen as a creator god and a common motif in the art and religion of Aboriginal Australia. Not all of the myths of the ancestral being link a rainbow with the snake, and not all describe the being as a snake, but there is usually a link with water or rain. Some scholars have suggested that the link between the two suggests the cycle of the seasons, for…

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