Rainbow Serpent
c. 2900 BCE – 2026 CEattested
Arnhem Land
- Aboriginal Australian
Creator being of many Aboriginal Australian traditions, who shaped the land by moving through it and lives in permanent waterholes. Rock art in Arnhem Land depicting it is among the oldest continuously meaningful imagery anywhere.
Known for
- the land shaped by a moving body
- the waterhole as a dwelling
- one of the oldest images still read
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.