A track marker from the Bibbulmun Track featuring a symbol of the Wagyl
Similar entities
Rainbow Serpent
Folklore
Australian Aboriginal
Other name(s)
Waugal, Waagal
Region
Southwest Western Australia
The Wagyl (also written Waugal and Waagal and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from the culture based around the south-west of Western Australia. The Noongar describe the Wagyl as a snakelike Dreaming creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning rivers and other waterways and landforms around present day Perth and the south-west of Western Australia.
The Wagyl stories may represent the survival in oral tradition of extinct Australian megafauna, as there was a python-like snake, Wonambi naracoortensis, with a length of five or six metres (sixteen or twenty feet).[1]
^"The Age of the Megafauna: The Beasts". ABC Science Online. 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
The Wagyl (also written Waugal and Waagal and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from the...
In Perth, the Noongar believe that the Darling Scarp is the body of the Wagyl – a serpent being that meandered over the land creating rivers, waterways...
intervals with triangular signs, most of which have a symbol of the Wagyl. The Wagyl, or Rainbow Serpent, is a snakelike Dreamtime creature that is a common...
creating rivers, waterways, and lakes. It is thought that the Wagyl created the Swan River. The Wagyl has been associated with Wonambi naracoutensis, part of...
story of how a big Wagyl (dreamtime water snake) wound itself round and round to form the rock, and is the last resting place of the Wagyl. Elder Cliff Humphries...
held responsible for the creation of major features of the landscape. The Wagyl of the Western Australian Noongar people is thought to correlate to the...
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...
Nagarnook and Ballarruk. The Whadjuk also preserved many stories of the Wagyl, a water-python held to be responsible for most of the water features around...
the Murinbata Numereji by the Kakadu (Gaagudju) Taipan by the Wikmunkan Wagyl by the Noongar Wanamangura by the Thalanyji (Talainji) Galeru Langal Myndie...
from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2011. "About The Wagyl Kaip and Southern Noongar Region". South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council...
3 billion native title deal struck between the state government and the Wagyl Kaip or southern Noongar peoples in 2015. Carol Petterson JP, a member of...
frogs, gilgies and mudfish hunted as food. Associated with the lake is the Wagyl, part of Noongar mythology. The myth describes the track of a serpent being...
important place of the Nyoongar people, and a source of mythology of the Wagyl and stories about Aboriginal occupancy of the area. Whiteman Park is known...
representing the wishbones, but it can also be seen as a swimming dolphin, a Wagyl serpent or a ribbon. 900 metres (3,000 ft) of multicolour LED lighting cover...
remains an important resource for reconstructing Koreng traditions. The Wagyl Kaip and Southern Noongar claim for Native Title was made in September 2006...
the walls of the station's underpass in June 2020. The artwork features a Wagyl, and silhouettes of a wardong (crow), manitj (western corella) and people...
oversight of the South: Yonga (formerly Armadale), Gwaya (formerly Cockburn), Wagyl (formerly Melville) and Marli (formerly Perth and Victoria Park) Deaneries...
Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Perth. Retrieved 1 January 2019. "Wagyl Kaip and the southern Noongar land use agreement" (PDF). Department of Premier...
Noongar language; the trail follows an ancient dreamtime track taken by the Wagyl. The trail was opened in 2003 and features interpretive signage and information...
significance due largely to its totemic significance and creation by the Wagyl in the Dreaming. Historically the Denmark River's water quality declined...
alcohol and Indigenous Australians; contained derogatory references to the Wagyl, a religious figure; treated death in a manner offensive to Indigenous Australians;...
InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. Retrieved 4 January 2019. "Wagyl Kaip and the southern Noongar land use agreement" (PDF). Department of Premier...
Project. South Coast rivercare. June 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2018. "The Wagyl Kaip and Southern Noongar Region". Aboriginal Corporation. Retrieved 30...
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