#Storywriting in other cultures full

Some animals followed the rules and were rewarded by being turned into humans. The animals that disobey the rules will be punished.” He said “All animals that obey the rules will be rewarded by becoming humans. The Rainbow Serpent made rules that all animals had to obey. They were happy and gathered food and water to bring back to their own tribes. Some animals lived on the land, digging and playing in the sand. Some animals lived in the sky, flying with their friends to distant places. Some animals lived in the sea, swimming back and forward. The kookaburra laughed, the goanna walked, and the wombat climbed out of her burrow, all for the first time.

Now that there was grass to eat and water to drink, Goorialla woke the animals. These gouges made the rivers and streams we see today.Īs the water flowed over the land, grass and trees began to grow and fill the land with colour. He tickled the frogs until the water burst from their mouth and filled the gouges in the land.

#Storywriting in other cultures full

He called “Frogs, come out!” and frogs rose out of the ground with their bellies full of the water they stored. Goorialla lay in the sand all alone until he decided to create more life in the world. As he had looked for his people, his big, long body had cut great gouges into the land. The land he lay down to sleep on was not the same land he had set out to search for his people on, though. After searching for a long time, he grew tired and lay down to sleep. He crossed every part of the dry, flat Australia but found nothing. He crossed Australia from east to west and north to south, stopping to listen for his people. One day, Goorialla, the rainbow serpent woke from his sleep and set off to find his tribe. There were no trees, no rivers, no animals and no grass.

At the beginning of the Dreamtime, the earth was flat and dry and empty.