Wollunqua
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In Australia
Australia
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n aboriginal mythology, Wollunqua (or Wollunka, Wollunkua) 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 of rain
Rain
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 and fertility, who emerged from a watering hole in the Murschison Mountains. He is said to be many miles long.
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