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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 3888625" data-attributes="member: 54364">Some names from Aborignal folklore that come to me:Tiddigulp (anglicised?) a frog that drank all the water in the world and refused to share it until made to laugh so hard that he threw up all the water. (mmm, vomit water)The Rainbow Serpent. A huge, malicious beast. When it was killed it's body formed the coloured beaches around Noosa.The Devil Dingo. A really, really big dingo. Eat more than just your baby. Killed by two hero brothers.The Three Sisters. These beautiful women refused the sexual advances of a powerful shaman and were turned to stone.The Dreaming. This is frequently mis-represented as being a long ago mythological time. It is actually more like a parallel world that mirrors the real world. Or perhaps the real world mirrors it. The two are very much intertwined. The real world cannot exist without the Dreaming. Not so sure if the Dreaming needs the real world. "Dreaming" is an Anglicised name that may make us think it is in some way unreal. Not so, the Dreaming is very real. In many ways more so: The creatures/people of the Dreaming are in many ways similar to Platonic Ideals.The following is my take only. No offense intended to anyone and if I'm wrong I'm happy to be corrected:Remember that classic quote: "Am I man dreaming he's a butterfly? Or a butterfly dreaming he's man?" A tribal Aboriginal person wouldn't need to ask him/herself that. They are both simultaneously. If your ancestors were birds you are still a bird and in the Dreaming can take bird shape.Bunyip: a malicious and dangerous water beast. Wulguru: can't remember exactly but very bad and very powerfulOOH: I just remembered: there was an old 3rd ed Call of Cthulu supplement for Australia. "The Dreaming" IIRC. That was a fantastic source (as were all the old CoC supplements I ever saw.) If you can find that you'll be set.And in terms of other media I can recommend 2 movies: Walkabout (circa 1970) and Ten Canoes (2006). Ten Canoes is subtitled and a very traditional Aboriginal story. Walkabout is more the white kids get lost in the desert and meet an Aboriginal boy. But both are good and can give you an idea of style, especially if you've not been exposed to much Aboriginal culture. ACtually there was an old episode of Skippy (oh stop groaning  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) that has stuck in my mind all these years. An old aboriginal man is wishing himself to death because he's been scared by an evil spirit (actually the ranger's chopper but we'll ignore that shocking bit of sterotyping.) It worked to give an idea of the different way of thinking from European culture.hope some of this helps,cheers.</blockquote>

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