Wuluwait is a god from northern

Arnhem Land Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia, with the term still in use. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territory capital, Darwin. In 1623, Dutch East India Compan ...

(in the

Northern Territory of Australia The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...

) and is known to work with Bunbulama as a rainmaker. He is also recorded by

Charles Mountford Charles Pearcy Mountford OBE (8 May 189016 November 1976) was an Australian anthropologist and photographer. He is known for his pioneering work on Indigenous Australians and his depictions and descriptions of their art. He also led the Americ ...

and

Ainslie Roberts Ainslie Roberts (12 March 1911 – 28 August 1993) was an Australian painter, photographer, and commercial artist. He is best known for his interpretations of Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal legends in his Dreamtime books, written in collabor ...

as a boatman who ferries the souls of the dead to Purelko, the aboriginal afterlife.

References

''The Dreamtime'' (1965) Ainslie Roberts and Charles P Mountford, Adelaide, Rigby Pty Ltd. Australian Aboriginal gods Death gods Nature gods Rain deities Psychopomps {{deity-stub