Creator god and sky father in Australian Aboriginal mythology
Wonnarua painting of Baiame, near Milbrodale, (south of Singleton, New South Wales). Note that his arms extend to the two trees either side.
In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Baiame (or Biame, Baayami,
Baayama or Byamee) is the creator god and sky father[1] in the Dreaming of several Aboriginal Australian peoples of south-eastern Australia, such as the Wonnarua, Kamilaroi, Guringay, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri peoples.
^Baglin, Douglass; Mullins, Barbara (1986). Aboriginal Art of Australia. Marleston, S.A.: Mulavon. p. 11.
In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Baiame (or Biame, Baayami, Baayama or Byamee) is the creator god and sky father in the Dreaming of several Aboriginal...
Baiame Cave is a heritage-listed cave and cultural site of the Wonnarua people at Milbrodale, Singleton Council, New South Wales, Australia. It is also...
Baiame. It was forbidden to mention or talk about the name of Baiame publicly. Women were not allowed to see drawings of Baiame nor approach Baiame sites...
Brewarrina Shire, New South Wales, Australia. They are also known as Baiame's Ngunnhu, Nonah, or Nyemba Fish Traps. The Brewarrina Aboriginal Cultural...
following is a list of Australian Indigenous Australian deities and spirits. Baiame (Baayami), creator spirit of some peoples of New South Wales, including...
Ku-ring-gai Chase-petroglyph, via Waratah Track, depicting Baiame, the Creator God and Sky Father in the dreaming of several Aboriginal language groups...
sake of simplicity. In Southeastern Australian cultures, the sky father Baiame is perceived as the creator of the universe (though this role is sometimes...
maal 'one' + -an suffix)[citation needed] is a sky hero associated with Baiame, and an emu-wife. He is a shapeshifter. Engravings of Daramulum are sometimes...
is said to have had a long thin face. Birrangulu is one of two wives of Baiame, with whom she is the mother of Daramulum.[citation needed] In the Guwamu...
bright sides represented a Galactic Bulge where the two sons of the creator Baiame and the river made a connection from the earth and the sky. The Yolngu people...
tempestuous Japanese god of storms and the sea. Thần Gió, Vietnamese wind god. Baiame, sky god and creator deity of southeastern Australia. Julunggul, Arnhem...
sites. Other sites show "Culture Heroes" or "Ancestral Beings" such as Baiame, who has a striped head-dress and often a striped body, and Daramulan who...
and water spirits. Major ancestral spirits include the Rainbow Serpent, Baiame, Dirawong and Bunjil. Similarly, the Arrernte people of central Australia...
evolved over time. Major ancestral spirits include the Rainbow Serpent, Baiame, Dirawong and Bunjil.[citation needed] Knowledge contained in the Dreaming...
is a major ancestral being for many Aboriginal people across Australia. Baiame or Bunjil are regarded as the primary creator-spirits in South-East Australia...
Painting of Baiame made by an unknown Wiradjuri artist in Baiame's cave, near Singleton, New South Wales. Notice the length of his arms which extend to...
examples of Aboriginal sacred and heritage sites in Australia include: Baiame's Cave: south of Singleton, New South Wales Ban Ban Springs: near Gayndah...
rock shelter popularly known as Baiame's Cave, at Milbrodale, with paintings depicting a large figure that may be Baiame, the Sky Father. Rock carvings...
such as Peats Ridge as songlines, routes that ancestral beings such as Baiame, Bootha and Daramulan took across the land, the knowledge of which is passed...
Hopi head kachina and sky father Altjira, Arrernte creator and sky god Baiame, southeast Australian creator and sky god Bila (sun), cannibalistic sun...
is its Aboriginal fish traps. Known in the local Aboriginal language as Baiame's Ngunnhu. It is believed that Ngemba, Wonkamurra, Wailwan and Gomolaroi...
According to indigenous mythology, Mount Yengo is the place from which Baiame, a creational ancestral hero, jumped back up to the spirit world after he...
formed in 1934, and the Archaeological Society of Victoria formed in 1964. Baiame's Cave Ban Ban Springs Budj Bim heritage areas Cuddie Springs Fromm's landing...
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