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- ↑ "Belah Sun Woman: III - Kundu Lizard Man".
- ↑ "Belah Sun Woman".
- ↑ Jennifer Isaacs (2005). Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History. New South Wales: New Holland. p. 142. ISBN 1-74110-258-8.
- ↑ Pianka, Eric R.; Vitt, Laurie J. (2003). Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. ISBN 9780520248472.
- ↑ Pianka, Eric R.; Vitt, Laurie J. (2003). Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. ISBN 9780520248472.
- ↑ Pianka, Eric R.; Vitt, Laurie J. (2003). Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity. ISBN 9780520248472.
- ↑ Patricia Montley, In Nature's Honor: Myths and Rituals Celebrating the Earth, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 2005
- ↑ Patricia Monaghan, Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines, New World Library, 01/04/2014
- ↑ "Oceanic Mythology: Part II. Melanesia: Chapter I. Myths of Origins and the Deluge".
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