Rainbow Serpent
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World MythologyAustralian Aboriginal Dreamtime
"Creator of the World, Keeper of Waters"
✦ Personality Traits
✦ About
The Rainbow Serpent is one of the most important creator beings in Australian Aboriginal mythology, appearing in the Dreamtime stories of peoples across the continent. This immense serpent shaped the land itself, carving out rivers, valleys, and mountains as it traveled.
When the Rainbow Serpent moves, it creates waterways and billabongs. When it arches across the sky after rain, it appears as the rainbow. It is associated with water, fertility, and the cycle of seasons. Disturbing the places sacred to the Rainbow Serpent can bring drought or flood.
The Rainbow Serpent represents the life-giving power of water in the Australian landscape and the interconnection of all things. Known by different names in different Aboriginal nations—Ungud, Wollunqua, Yurlungur—it is perhaps the most widespread deity in Aboriginal Australia.
✦ Famous Story
In the Dreamtime, the Rainbow Serpent awoke from beneath the ground and traveled across the flat land, pushing up mountains and digging out rivers. Where it rested, it created waterholes. The landscape of Australia is the record of its journey.
✦ If You Match
Your features carry the primal creative power of the Rainbow Serpent. There is an ancient, landscape-shaping quality to your presence—the look of one who creates the very contours of the world.