Walo

The sun-woman who journeyed across the sky accompanied with her daughter Bara. One day, Walo realizes that the reason that the earth is so parched is their combined heat. She sends her daughter back to their home in the east and since then travels across the sky alone.

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References

Sources

  • Monaghan, Patricia. (1990). Book of Goddesses and Heroines, rev. ed. St. Paul, MN: Lewellyn, 1990.
  • Roberts, Ainslie and Charles P. Mountford. (1973). The Dreamtime Book: Australian Aboriginal Myths. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.