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(specifically: Karadjeri), Dilga is a goddess of fertility and growth, and the mother of the

Bagadjimbiri In Karajarri mythology, the Bagadjimbiri are two brothers and creator spirits. They arose from the ground as dingos and made water-holes, sex organs (from a mushroom and another fungus) for the androgynous first people, and invented circumcisi ...

. She avenged their deaths at the hands of

Ngariman In Karajarri mythology, Ngariman is a quoll Quolls (; genus ''Dasyurus'') are carnivorous marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea. They are primarily nocturnal, and spend most of the day in a den. Of the six species of quoll, four are ...

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him in her milk, which resurrected her children.

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{{deity-stub Australian Aboriginal goddesses Fertility goddesses