Wandjina
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thumb|Wandjina rock art on the [[Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station]]
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thumb|Wandjina rock art on the [[Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station]]
The Wandjina, also written Wanjina and Wondjina and also known as Gulingi, are cloud and rain spirits from the Wanjina Wunggurr cultural bloc of Aboriginal Australians, depicted prominently in rock art in northwestern Australia. Some of the artwork in the Kimberley region of Western Australia dates back to approximately 4,000 years ago. Another closely related spirit entity is the creator being Wunngurr, a being analogous to the Rainbow Serpent in other Aboriginal peoples' belief systems, but with a different interpretation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wandjina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.