Ungud
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In Australian Aboriginal mythology
, Ungud is a snake
god who is sometimes male and sometimes female. He is associated with rainbow
s and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans.
Australian Aboriginal mythology
Australian Aboriginal myths are the stories traditionally performed by Aboriginal peoples within each of the language groups across Australia....
, Ungud is a snake
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
god who is sometimes male and sometimes female. He is associated with rainbow
Rainbow
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc...
s and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans.