List of Australian Aboriginal mythological figures
The following is a list of Australian Indigenous Australian deities and spirits.
New South Wales
- Baiame, creator spirit of some peoples of New South Wales, including the Gamilaraay and the Wiradjuri
- Bahloo, Gamilaraay personification of the moon who keeps three pet snakes
- Birrahgnooloo, Gamilaraay fertility spirit who would send floods if properly asked to; one of Baiame's two wives
- Daramulum, sky hero and son of Baiame and Birrahngnooloo
- Dirawong, Bundjalung creator being
- Dulagal, predatory child-eater with red eyes, no neck and a long forehead, and walking "from side to side"
- Ganhanbili, second wife of Baiame
- 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
- Wurrunna, culture hero
- Yhi, Gamilaraay personification of the sun and creator spirit
Northern Territory
- Adnoartina, the lizard guard of Uluru
- Altjira, Arrernte sky god who created the earth
- Ankotarinja, the first man of Arrernte mythology
- Bamapana, Yolngu trickster spirit who creates discord
- Banaitja, creator deity
- Barnumbirr, Yolngu creator spirit
- Barraiya, creator of the first vagina
- Bluetongue Lizard, an elderly trickster
- Bobbi-Bobbi, benevolent Binbinga snake deity
- Djanggawul, three creator-siblings of northeast Arnhem Land mythology
- Djunkgao, a group of sisters associated with floods and ocean currents
- Eingana 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
- Karora, creator god
- Kunapipi, a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes
- Malingee, malignant nocturnal spirit
- Mamaragan, lightning deity
- Mangar-kunjer-kunja, Arrernte lizard deity who created humans
- Manuriki, god of beauty
- Maratji in Tiwi and Iwaidja myth. Lizards guard waterholes, cause floods and thunderstorms when intruded upon. Similar to Ipilja-ipilja.
- Mimi, fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land
- Minawara and Multultu, legendary ancestors of the Nambutji
- Mokoi, an evil spirit in Yolngu stories who kidnapped and ate children
- Namarrkon, Lightning man, makes lightning appear and creates roars of thunder in storms
- Ngintaka, Pitjantjatjara creator being
- Nogomain, a god who gives spirit children to mortal parents
- Onur, Karraur lunar deity
- Papinijuwari, a type of one-eyed giant which feeds on the bodies of the dead and the blood of the sick
- Tjilpa-men, significant mythic figures Aranda, Anmatyerre, Kaytetye, Ngalia, Ilpara and Kukatja stories. Tjilpa is the Arrernte word for quoll.
- Tjinimin, the ancestor of the Australian people. He is associated with the bat and with Kunmanggur the rainbow serpent - per the Murinbata
- Ulanji, snake ancestor of the Binbinga
- Wala, solar goddess
- Wawalag, Yolngu sisters who were swallowed by a serpent, only to be regurgitated
- Wollunqua, snake deity associated with rain and fertility
- Wuluwaid, rain god of Arnhem Land
- Wuriupranili, a solar goddess whose torch is the sun
- Wurugag and Waramurungundi, first man and woman of Kunwinjku legend
- Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod.
- Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.
- Yurlungur, Yolngu snake deity who swallowed and regurgitated the Wawalag sisters; associated with initiation and rebirth
Queensland
- Anjea, fertility goddess or spirit, in whom people's souls reside between their incarnations
- Gaiya, giant devil dingo of lower Cape York Peninsula
- Dhakhan, ancestral god of the Kabi
- I'wai, culture hero of the Kuuku-Ya'u
- Yalungur, god of the first baby
- Yarri a tree-climbing predatory animal along the Herbert River.
South Australia
- Akurra, great snake deity of the Adnyamathanha people
- Bila, cannibal sun goddess of the Adnyamathanha people
- Bunyip, mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes
- Chinny-kinik, a cannibal giant of the Murraylands
- Mar'rallang, twin sisters who share a name and whose exploits are immortalized in the night sky in Ngarrindjeri stories
- Minka Bird bird that foretells death among the Ngarrindjeri of Murray River
- Muldjewangk, water spirit or spirits inhabiting the Murray River
- Ngintaka, Pitjantjatjara creator being
- Thardid Jimbo, cannibalistic giant in Ngarrindjeri folklore
- Tjilbruke, Kaurna creation ancestor
Tasmania
- Moinee, Creator spirit/God for Tasmania
- Droemerdene, Moinee's twin brother
- Rageowrapper, malevolent spirit
Victoria
- Baiame, southeast Australian creational ancestral hero
- Balayang, bat deity and brother of Bunjil
- Binbeal, Kulin rainbow deity and son of Bunjil
- Bunjil, Kulin creator deity and ancestral being, represented as an eagle
- Bunyip, mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes
- Daramulum, southeast Australian deity and son of Baiame
- Gnowee, solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; her torch is the sun
- Karatgurk, seven sisters who represent the Pleiades star cluster
- Kondole, man who became the first whale
- Lo-an-tuka, wife of Loo-errn
- Loo-errn, spirit ancestor and guardian of the Brataualung people
- Nargun, fierce half-human, half-stone creature of Gunai legend
- Thinan-malkia, evil spirit who captures victims with nets that entangle their feet
- Tiddalik, frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it
- Waang, Kulin trickster, culture hero and ancestral being, represented as a crow
- Wambeen, evil lightning-hurling figure who targets travellers
Western Australia
- Bagadjimbiri, a pair of Karadjeri creator-spirits
- 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 is a ritual "executioner" in Australian Indigenous Australian culture.
- Ngariman, Karadjeri quoll-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri and was drowned in revenge
- Njirana, Jumu deity and father of Julana
- Ungud, snake deity associated with rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans
- Wagyl, Noongar snakelike creator being
- Wati-kutjara, a pair of western Australian lizard-men
- Wirnpa a rainmaking snake who created the land around Percival Lakes during the Dreaming
- Wondjina, Mowanjum cloud or rain spirits
Pan-continental
- Erathipa, central Australia, a boulder that has the shape of a pregnant woman
- Min Min light term may originate with aboriginal groups Cloncurry area in Queensland, sightings in NSW and Western Australia
- Rainbow Serpent, a common feature of the art and mythology of Indigenous Australian cultures
Unknown
- Kinie Ger, evil half-man, half-quoll beast
- Yara-ma-yha-who, monstrous bloodsucking dwarf
- Tebwem, a flesh eating ghost