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| - Die Wagyl (auch Waugal oder Waagal) ist ein mythisches Wesen der Noongar-Kultur. Es ist ein Wesen aus der Traumzeit der australischen Aborigines, eine Schlange, die den Swan River und Canning River sowie weitere Wasserwege und Landschaftsformen bei Perth sowie im Südwesten von Western Australia bildete. (de)
- Selon la culture Noongar, le Wagyl (que l'on peut également écrire Waugal ou Waagal) est une créature du « Temps du rêve » ressemblant à un serpent. Il est responsable de la création du Swan, de la rivière Canning, et d'autres cours d'eau des alentours de Perth, au sud-ouest de l'Australie-Occidentale. (fr)
- The Wagyl (also written Waugal and Waagal and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from the culture based around the south-west of Western Australia. The Noongar describe the Wagyl as a snakelike Dreaming creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning rivers and other waterways and landforms around present day Perth and the south-west of Western Australia. (en)
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| - Die Wagyl (auch Waugal oder Waagal) ist ein mythisches Wesen der Noongar-Kultur. Es ist ein Wesen aus der Traumzeit der australischen Aborigines, eine Schlange, die den Swan River und Canning River sowie weitere Wasserwege und Landschaftsformen bei Perth sowie im Südwesten von Western Australia bildete. (de)
- Selon la culture Noongar, le Wagyl (que l'on peut également écrire Waugal ou Waagal) est une créature du « Temps du rêve » ressemblant à un serpent. Il est responsable de la création du Swan, de la rivière Canning, et d'autres cours d'eau des alentours de Perth, au sud-ouest de l'Australie-Occidentale. (fr)
- The Wagyl (also written Waugal and Waagal and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from the culture based around the south-west of Western Australia. The Noongar describe the Wagyl as a snakelike Dreaming creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning rivers and other waterways and landforms around present day Perth and the south-west of Western Australia. The Wagyl created many local landscape features between the Porongarups and off the coast of Fremantle. Indeed, Porongarup means 'spirit gathering place', from the Noongar Borong, 'Spirit', Gar, 'Gathering' and Up, 'Place'. The Wagyl was delegated to protect the rivers, lakes, springs and the wildlife, and Wagyl sacred sites tend to be natural sun-traps, located beside bodies of water. The Noongar people were appointed by the Wagyl as the guardians of the land, and the Wagyl was seen by certain tribal elders who spoke to the dreamtime being. The Darling Scarp is said to represent the body of the Wagyl, which meandered over the land creating the curves and contours of the hills and gullies. The being is strongly associated with rivers, lakes like Lake Monger, and is supposed still to reside deep beneath springs. As the Wagyl slithered over the land, his track shaped the sand dunes, his body scoured out the course of the rivers; where he occasionally stopped for a rest, he created bays and lakes. Piles of rocks are said to be his droppings, and such sites are considered sacred. As he moved, his scales scraped off and become the forests and woodlands of the region. The Wagyl stories may represent the survival in oral tradition of extinct Australian megafauna, as there was a python-like snake, Wonambi naracoortensis, with a length of five or six metres (sixteen or twenty feet). (en)
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