Numbakulla

The Numbakulla are self-existing sky-deities in Arrernte belief. After they had created animals, plants, birds, and humans from the embryonic inapertwa, they became lizards. They also created the "spirit children." Also named as a single deity.

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References

Sources

  • Leach, Maria, ed. (1984). Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Roberts, Ainslie and Charles P. Mountford. (1973). The Dreamtime Book: Australian Aboriginal Myths. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, p. 48.