title: List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures
text: # List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures
  
  The following is a list of Australian Indigenous Australian deities and spirits.
  
  ## New South Wales
  
  * Baiame (Baayami), creator spirit of some peoples of New South Wales, including the Gamilaraay and the Wiradjuri
  * Bahloo (Baaluu), Gamilaraay personification of the moon who keeps three pet snakes
  * Birrahgnooloo (Birrangulu), Gamilaraay fertility spirit who would send floods if properly asked to; one of Baiame's two wives
  * Ganhanbili, second wife of Baiame
  * Daramulum (Dharramalan), sky hero and son of Baiame and Birrahngnooloo
  * Wurrunna, culture hero
  * Yhi (Yaraay/Yaay), Gamilaraay personification of the sun and creator spirit
  * Dirawong, Bundjalung creator being
  
  ## Northern Territory
  
  * Adnoartina, the lizard guard of Uluru
  * Altjira, Arrernte sky god who created the earth
  * Ankotarinja, the first man of Arrernte mythology
  * Onur, Karraur lunar deity
  * Bamapana, Yolngu trickster spirit who creates discord
  * Banaitja, creator deity
  * Barnumbirr, Yolngu creator spirit
  * Barraiya, creator of the first vagina
  * Bobbi-Bobbi, benevolent Binbinga snake deity
  * Djanggawul, three creator-siblings of northeast Arnhem Land mythology
  * Galeru, rainbow snake in Arnhem Land mythology who swallowed the Djanggawul
  * Djunkgao, a group of sisters associated with floods and ocean currents
  * Julunggul, Yolngu rainbow snake goddess associated with initiation, fertility, rebirth and water
  * Karora, creator god
  * Kunapipi, a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes
  * Malingee, malignant nocturnal spirit
  * Mamaragan, lightning deity
  * Mangar-kunjer-kunja, Arrernte lizard deity who created humans
  * Mimi, fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land
  * Minawara and Multultu, legendary ancestors of the Nambutji
  * Namarrkon (also known as Namarrgon), Lightning man, makes lightning appear and creates roars of thunder in storms
  * Mokoi, an evil Yolngu spirit who kidnapped and ate children
  * Ngintaka, Pitjantjatjara creator being
  * Nogomain, a god who gives spirit children to mortal parents
  * Manuriki, god of beauty
  * Papinijuwari, a type of one-eyed giant which feeds on the bodies of the dead and the blood of the sick
  * Tjinimin, the ancestor of the Australian people. He is associated with the bat and with Kunmanggur the rainbow serpent - per the Murinbata
  * Ulanji, snake ancestor of the Binbinga
  * Wala, solar goddess
  * Wawalag, Yolngu sisters who were swallowed by a serpent, only to be regurgitated
  * Wollunqua, snake deity associated with rain and fertility
  * Wuluwaid, rain god of Arnhem Land
  * Wuriupranili, a solar goddess whose torch is the sun
  * Wurugag and Waramurungundi, first man and woman of Kunwinjku legend
  * Yawkyawk, Aboriginal mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools.
  * Yurlungur, Yolngu snake deity who swallowed and regurgitated the Wawalag sisters; associated with initiation and rebirth
  
  ## Queensland
  
  * Anjea, fertility goddess or spirit, in whom people's souls reside between their incarnations
  * Gaiya, giant devil dingo of lower Cape York Peninsula
  * Dhakhan, ancestral god of the Kabi
  * I'wai, culture hero of the Kuuku-Ya'u
  * Yalungur, god of the first baby
  
  ## South Australia
  
  * Akurra, great snake deity of the Adnyamathanha people
  * Bila, cannibal sun goddess of the Adnyamathanha people
  * Bunyip, mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes
  * Mar'rallang, mythical twin sisters
  * Muldjewangk, water spirit or spirits inhabiting the Murray River
  * Ngintaka, Pitjantjatjara creator being
  * Tjilbruke, Kaurna creation ancestor
  
  ## Tasmania
  
  * Moinee, Creator spirit/God for Tasmania
  * Droemerdene, Moinee's twin brother
  * Rageowrapper, malevolent spirit
  
  ## Victoria
  
  * Baiame, southeast Australian creational ancestral hero
  * Balayang, bat deity and brother of Bunjil
  * Binbeal, Kulin rainbow deity and son of Bunjil
  * Bunjil, Kulin creator deity and ancestral being, represented as an eagle
  * Bunyip, mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes
  * Daramulum, southeast Australian deity and son of Baiame
  * Gnowee, solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; her torch is the sun
  * Karatgurk, seven sisters who represent the Pleiades star cluster
  * Kondole, man who became the first whale
  * Lo-an-tuka, wife of Loo-errn
  * Loo-errn, spirit ancestor and guardian of the Brataualung people
  * Nargun, fierce half-human, half-stone creature of Gunai legend
  * Thinan-malkia, evil spirit who captures victims with nets that entangle their feet
  * Tiddalik, frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it
  * Waang, Kulin trickster, culture hero and ancestral being, represented as a crow
  * Wambeen, evil lightning-hurling figure who targets travellers
  
  ## Western Australia
  
  * Bagadjimbiri, a pair of Karadjeri creator-spirits
  * Dilga, Karadjeri goddess of fertility and growth, and mother of the Bagadjimbiri
  * Julana, lecherous Jumu spirit who surprises women by burrowing beneath the sand, leaping out, and raping them
  * Kidili, Mandjindja moon deity who was castrated for attempting to rape the first women, who in turn became the Pleiades
  * Kurdaitcha (or kurdaitcha man) is a ritual "executioner" in Australian Indigenous Australian culture (specifically the term comes from the Arrernte people).
  * Ngariman, Karadjeri quoll-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri and was drowned in revenge
  * Njirana, Jumu deity and father of Julana
  * Ungud, snake deity associated with rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans
  * Wagyl, Noongar snakelike creator being
  * Wati-kutjara, a pair of western Australian lizard-men
  * Wondjina, Mowanjum cloud or rain spirits
  
  ## Pan-continental
  
  * Rainbow Serpent, a common feature of the art and mythology of Indigenous Australian cultures
  * Erathipa, central Australia, a boulder that has the shape of a pregnant woman
  
  ## Unknown
  
  * Kinie Ger, evil half-man, half-quoll beast
  * Thardid Jimbo, cannibalistic giant
  * Yara-ma-yha-who, monstrous bloodsucking dwarf
  * Bluetongue Lizard, an elderly trickster
  * Nogomain, a god who gives spirit children to mortal parents.
  * Mar'rallang, the name shared by twin sisters
  * Djunkgao, a group of sisters who are associated with floods and ocean currents
  * Yee-Na-Pah, a devil girl
  