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Yurlunggur [@stardu-1 Color wheel contest 🌈]

This is part of @Stardu-1's color contest, this time themed around neon and serves as an overall capstone to my participation to the contest! The Rainbow Serpent is known by many different names across the various Aboriginal Australian cultures with Yurlunggur being the better known ones, other names include Kunmanggur, Galeru, Ungur, Wonambi, or Wollunqu , the earliest known depiction being 6000 years old. The first formal recording by Western scholars was made in 1901-1902 by anthropologist Baldwin Spencer. And finally in 1926, anthropologist Alfred Radcliffe-Brown gave this common widespread deity term of 'Rainbow snake'. The meaning of Yurlunggur as has changed throughout time and even context with many regional variants. but persistent across Australia is a depiction of a snake-like deity figure in rainbow colors with a creator role responsible for Australia's geographic features like waterholes not drying up in the summer being explained as rainbows as the snake itself between waterholes. Additionally Yurlunggur was also an enforcer through punishnebt, a guardian who would strike back against the defilement of sacred natural sites. The wrath embodied as torrential floods, violent storms and death. With later 20th‑century oral traditions and artworks reframing its destructive power as a commentary on the wrongs of colonisation. これは@Stardu-1主催のカラーコンテストへの参加作品の一部で、今回のテーマは「ネオン」です。この作品で、私のコンテストへの参加を締めくくることになります! レインボー・サーペントは、オーストラリアの様々な先住民文化において多くの異なる名前で知られており、中でも「ユルルングール(Yurlunggur)」は比較的よく知られた名称の一つです。その他の名称には、クンマングール(Kunmanggur)、ガレル(Galeru)、ウングル(Ungur)、ウォナンビ(Wonambi)、またはウォルンク(Wollunqu)などがあり、現存する最古の描写は6000年前のものです。西洋の学者による最初の正式な記録は、1901年から1902年にかけて人類学者のボールドウィン・スペンサーによって行われました。そして1926年、人類学者のアルフレッド・ラドクリフ=ブラウンが、この広く普及している神の名を「レインボー・スネーク(虹の蛇)」と名付けました。 ユルルングルの意味は時代や文脈によって変化し、地域ごとに多くのバリエーションが存在する。しかし、オーストラリア全土で一貫しているのは、虹色の蛇のような神の姿の描写であり、夏でも水場が干上がらないといったオーストラリアの地理的特徴を生み出した創造主としての役割が、水場と水場の間に蛇そのものが存在することとして説明されている。 さらに、ユルルングルは罰を通じて秩序を執行する存在でもあり、神聖な自然の場所が冒涜された際には報復を加える守護者でもあった。その怒りは、猛烈な洪水、激しい嵐、そして死として具現化された。20世紀後半の口承伝承や芸術作品においては、その破壊的な力が、植民地化の過ちに対する批判として再解釈されるようになった。 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15220540-600-flood-gave-birth-to-worlds-oldest-religion/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Serpent

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(External upload notice: Modified through google Gemini. Model used: Tsubaki.2)Create the mythical serpent spirit, the Rainbow Serpent, its massive body undulating through a sacred waterhole (billabong) in the heart of the Australian landscape. Its skin is a mesmerizing pattern of iridescent, rainbow-colored scales, shimmering with the prismatic sheen of quartz crystals and mother-of-pearl. The serpent has a thick body that tapers at the neck and tail, an oval-shaped head with a mouth slightly open to reveal a long, white forked tongue. A distinctive, curved horse-like head and a spiked or pointed tail. The creature’s form is adorned with intricate patterns of Aboriginal cross-hatching (rarrk) and dotwork, painted with natural ochres of dark yellow, maroon, black, and white. The serpent is depicted emerging from or coiled around life-giving waters, surrounded by lush vegetation and water lilies, its colossal form carving the very landscape. The sky above is dark with rain clouds, and a brilliant rainbow arcs across the scene. The mood is one of immense, ancient power, connecting the earth and the sky, creation and destruction, in a single, awe-inspiring moment.
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