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Australian Aboriginal mythology
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies. Aboriginal spirituality includes ...
, Wala is a sun goddess who lived with her sister, Bara, and her sister-in-law,
Madalait. Bara accompanied her across the Sun every day, but Wala realized she made the Earth too hot and made her stop. She journeyed to the southern mountains and brought back the Sun. She then stored it in a bag and kept it until the Moon disappeared.
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List of solar deities
A solar deity is a deity who represents the Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this ene ...
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Australian Aboriginal goddesses
Solar goddesses
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