Wollunqua
Wollunqua is a snake-god of rain and fertility in Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Warramunga people of the Northern Territory of Australia. He is a variation of the "Rainbow Serpent" present in the mythology of many other Aboriginal Australian peoples. The snake emerged from a watering hole called Kadjinara in the Murchison Ranges, and is said to be many miles long and can place the rainbow in the sky at will.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Totemic ancestor of the Warramunga people.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Danh-gbi, Lightning Snake, bear, Artio, Quetzalcoatl, Aesculapius, Wagyl, Kunapipi, Artemis (Diana)
- manifests as
- Rainbow Serpent
- aspect of
- Rainbow Serpent
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Wollunqua, also written Wollunka or Wollunkua, is a snake-god of rain and fertility in Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Warramunga people of the Northern Territory of Australia, a variation of the "Rainbow Serpent" present in the mythology of many other Aboriginal Australian peoples.”
#31553 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Wollunqua is the Warumungu people's version of the Rainbow Serpent, telling of an enormous snake which emerged from a watering hole called Kadjinara in the Murchison Ranges, Northern Territory.”
#32148 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the Warramunga cult of the mythical Wollunqua totem animal, whom they seek to placate by rites.”
#44147 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free