Wuluwaid
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In Australia
n aboriginal mythology, Wuluwaid is a rain
god. See also Wuluwait
. Wuluwait is a god from northern Arnhem Land (northern Australia) and is known to work with Bunbulama as a rainmaker. He is also recorded by Charles Mountford and Ainslie Roberts
as a boatman who ferries the souls of the dead to Purelko, the aboriginal afterlife.
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n aboriginal mythology, Wuluwaid is a rain
Rain
Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface...
god. See also Wuluwait
Wuluwait
Wuluwait is a god from northern Arnhem Land and is known to work with Bunbulama as a rainmaker. He is also recorded by Charles Mountford and Ainslie Roberts as a boatman who ferries the souls of the dead to Purelko, the aboriginal afterlife.-References:The Dreamtime Ainslie Roberts and Charles P...
. Wuluwait is a god from northern Arnhem Land (northern Australia) and is known to work with Bunbulama as a rainmaker. He is also recorded by Charles Mountford and Ainslie Roberts
Ainslie Roberts
Ainslie Roberts was an Australian painter, photographer and commercial artist. He is best known his for interpretations of Aboriginal legends in his Dreamtime books, written in collaboration with ethnologist/anthropologist Charles Mountford.-Early life:Ainslie was born in London, England in 1911...
as a boatman who ferries the souls of the dead to Purelko, the aboriginal afterlife.