Ngalyod
Ngalyod is the Rainbow Serpent creator being in the mythology of the Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. As a powerful ancestral being, Ngalyod created the landscape, waterholes, and living things during the Dreamtime. Unlike the purely serpentine Rainbow Serpent figures, Ngalyod is a composite creature with features of multiple animals — the body of a snake, the head of a buffalo or crocodile, and the tail of a fish or kangaroo. This composite nature represents Ngalyod's power to transform between different forms and her dominion over all creatures. Ngalyod is depicte