Wagyl

Wagyl
Giver of life, or sustenance for life, to the people who are the custodians of its land
A track marker from the Bibbulmun Track featuring a symbol of the Wagyl
Other names	Waugal Waagal
Gender	Male Female
Region	Southwest Western Australia
Ethnic group	Noongar
Equivalents
Australian Aboriginal	Rainbow Serpent

The Wagyl (also written Waugal, Waagal, and variants) is the Noongar manifestation of the Rainbow Serpent in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from the culture based around the south-west of Western Australia. The Noongar describe the Wagyl as a snakelike Dreaming creature responsible for the creation of the Swan and Canning rivers and other waterways and landforms around present day Perth and the south-west of Western Australia.

The Wagyl stories may represent the survival in oral tradition of extinct Australian megafauna, as there was a python-like snake, Wonambi naracoortensis, with a length of five to six metres (16 to 20 ft).^[1]