List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures
# 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
