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It is said to inhabit particular waterholes, springs etc., owing to the fact that such bodies of water can exhibit spectral colors by diffracting light, according to one explanation. The rainbow serpent is in the first instance, is the rainbow itself. For the indigenous people of Australia, the stories are everywhen – past, present and future. Another error of the same kind is the way in which Western-educated people, with a cultural stereotype of Greco-Roman or Norse myths, tell the Aboriginal stories in the past tense. It has also been suggested that the Serpent's position as the most prominent creator god in the Australian tradition has largely been the creation of non-Aboriginal anthropologists. In fact, the name Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake appears to have been coined in English by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, an anthropologist who noticed the same concept going under different names among various Aboriginal Australian cultures, and called it "the rainbow-serpent myth of Australia." It has been suggested that this name implies that there is only one Rainbow Serpent, when the concept actually varies quite a bit from one Aboriginal culture to another, and should be properly called the Rainbow Serpent myth s of Australia. Though the concept of the Rainbow Serpent has existed for a very long time in Aboriginal Australian cultures, it was introduced to the wider world through the work of anthropologists.

Wanamangura by the Thalanyji (Talainji).

Andrénjinyi by the natives of Pennefather River, North Queensland.

Dhakkan (or Takkan) by the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi).

Yingarna, the original (female) Rainbow Serpent, whose son is Ngalyod, though these names may be used interchangeably.

Moitt, Muit ) in Central Arnhemland by the Rembarrnga, etc.

Bolung in the Northern Territory, by the Dangbon/ Dalabon/Buan and Rembarrnga.

Two mythical Kooremah of the Mycoolon ( Maikulan) tribe of Queensland, are cosmic carpet snakes 40 miles long, residing in watery realm of the dead, or on the pathway leading to it this is probably equivalent to the rainbow snake also. The same snake is called Tulloun among the Mitakoodi (Maithakari). Kanmare is the name of the great water serpent in Queensland among the Pitapita people of the Boulia District it is apparently a giant carpet snake, and recorded under the name Cunmurra further south. The serpent is called Witij/ Wititj by the Galpu clan of the Dhangu people, one of Yolngu peoples. The Yurlunggur was considered "the great father".

Yurlunggur is the name of the "rainbow serpent" according to the Murngin ( Yolngu) in north-eastern Arnhemland, also styled Yurlungur, Yulunggur, Jurlungur, Julunggur or Julunggul. The Rainbow Serpent is known by different names by the many different Aboriginal cultures.

The Rainbow Serpent Festival is an annual festival of music, arts and culture in Victoria. When the rainbow is seen in the sky, it is said to be the Rainbow Serpent moving from one waterhole to another and the divine concept explained why some waterholes never dried up when drought struck. Not all of the myths of the ancestral being link a rainbow with the snake and not all describe the being as a snake, but there is usually a link with water or rain. The Rainbow Serpent is one of the most common and well-known Aboriginal stories and is of great importance to Aboriginal society. The serpent is viewed as a giver of life through its association with water, but can be a destructive force if angry. There are many names and stories associated with the serpent, all of which communicate the significance and power of this being within Aboriginal mythology, which includes the worldview commonly referred to as The Dreaming. It is a common motif in the art and religion of many Aboriginal Australian peoples. The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as a creator god, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. Australian Aboriginal rock painting of the "Rainbow Serpent".