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Dhakhan

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In Gubbi Gubbi mythology, Dhakhan is an ancestral spirit. He is described as a giant serpent with the tail of a giant fish. He often appears as a rainbow, as this is his way of travelling between the watering holes which are his homes.[1] He is also the creator of the snakes and serpents that live within the waterholes.

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  1. ^ Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. (1926). "The Rainbow-Serpent Myth of Australia". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 56: 19–25. doi:10.2307/2843596.