Baiame
c. 2000 BCE – 2026 CEattested
south-eastern Australia
- Aboriginal Australian
Sky creator of several south-eastern Australian peoples, who made the rivers and mountains and then withdrew upward. His painted figure appears in rock shelters across New South Wales, arms outstretched.
Known for
- the creator who withdrew
- law-giver at initiation
- the outstretched figure in rock shelters
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.