Kunapipi

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Kunapipi is a mother goddess and the patron deity of many heroes. She gave birth to human beings as well as to most animals and plants, and Mother Goddess and patron deity of many heroes. The mother goddess of the aboriginal tribes of northern Australia. Now a vague, otiose, spiritual being, ‘the old woman’ once travelled across the land with a band of heroes and heroines, and during the ancestral period she gave birth to men and women as well as creating the natural species. A ‘rainbow serpent’ went before in order to prepare her way