Wagyl

The Wagyl (also Waugal or Waagal ) is a mythical creature of Noongar culture. It is a being from the Dreamtime of Australian Aborigines, a snake, the Swan River and Canning River and other waterways and landforms in Perth and formed in the southwest of Western Australia.

Myth

The Rainbow Serpent, a mythical being in almost all original dreamtime ideas Aboriginal, created the universe and the people and gave the Wagyl, a smaller, but no less powerful serpent beings, the ability to create rivers, lakes, rivers and animals. The Wagyl - stroke in turn instructed the Noongar to protect the country .. The Elders ( Elders ) of the Noongar who report on the dream time, should have the ability to see the Wagyl Snake.

The rock walls of the Darling Scarp, mountains in the east of the Swan Coastal Plain near Perth, should represent the physical imprint of Wagyl - snake, which meandered through the country and shaped the contours of the hills and streams and gullies, as well as the lakes, such as Lake Monger. The snake is located below the sources. When the Wagyl slid across the country, they created the sand dunes and her body formed the rivers and where she stopped from time to time, arisen riverside and lakes. Rocks are their ejection and they are especially sacred. As she moved, fell from their scales and these were to forests and tree landscapes.

May have the Wagyl - tales that have been handed down orally, in a real background to the former Australian megafauna, a boa constrictor, the Wonambi naracoortensis which reached a length of five to six meters.

Today

The snake rested at the foot of Mount Eliza and this place is sacred to the Noongar. The former Swan Brewery is located at this place. When the Noongar groups wanted to have back this land, a protest camp of the Noongar was built between the late 1990s and the early 2000s there.

Today, older Noongar Aboriginal walk along the Swan River and report the young Aborigines from the Dreamtime of Wagyl Snake.