WONDJINA


Meaning of WONDJINA in English

[Aboriginal] Primal beings of the Aboriginals. They are cloud and rain spirits who in the Dreamtime descended to caves where they painted their images on the cave walls. These images are shaped as humans, with eyes and noses, but without any mouths. Their ghosts remained in nearby waterpools. One of them, Walaganda, rose to the sky and formed the Milky Way.

Encyclopedia Mythica English dictionary.      Английский энциклопедический словарь греческой мифологии.