Gurangatch a rainbow serpent / human inhabitant of the Dreaming who in his battle with the quoll Mirragañ created the landscape
Mirragañ a quoll / human inhabitant the Dreaming who went to hunt the rainbow serpent / human inhabitant of the Dreaming Gurangatch
Mungoon-Gali giant goanna in Yuwaalaraay myth, married to Kubbitha or Kabbitha the black duck who created the Murrumbidgee River, rival to Ouyouboolooey the black snake who stole Mungoon-Gali's poison for the snakes.
Whowie six-legged seven meter long frog-headed goanna of the Murray River who menaced nearby tribes
Djunkgao, a group of sisters associated with floods and ocean currents
Eingana (Jawoyn people) rainbow snake whose body during the rainy season releases animals and plants that the community relies on for food
Galeru, rainbow snake in Arnhem Land mythology who swallowed the Djanggawul
Garkain the Recluse, predatory being whose victim's souls are forced to forever wander the vast jungles of their final resting place
Inapertwa in Arrernte mythology, simple ancestral beings formed into all plants, birds, animals and later humans
Ipilja-ipilja 100ft gecko of Anindilyakwa myth. Adorned with hairs and whiskers. Spews swamp water to make the clouds of the sky, thunder is ipilja-ipilja's roaring. Ipilja-ipilja's home is a swamp filled with deadly waters. Similar to legends of maratji by Tiwi and Iwaidja people.
Julunggul, Yolngu rainbow snake goddess associated with initiation, fertility, rebirth and water
Yawkyawk, Aboriginal (Kunwinjku) shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod.
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).[3]
Ngariman, Karadjeri quoll-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri and was drowned in revenge
Hiatt, L. R., ed. (1975), Australian Aboriginal Mythology: Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, ISBN978-0-85575-044-2
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