I am a Proud Gunaikurnai -Wadawurrung (Wadawurrung Dja Dja) Woman. ✨🌿👣🖤💛❤️👣🌿✨ Often depicted as a great Rainbow Serpent who I am using to connect us through storytelling, my Original Mob Gunaikurnai does not have the Rainbow Serpent as Creator we have Narkabungdha. Now is the time for us to come together and share our stories so that our ways and values are better understood.-There are many Dreaming and creation stories shared by our mob. They help to explain our history and some of our traditional beliefs, blending scientifically verifiable events from our ancient past with stories that relate to our beliefs, tales of morality and life lessons. Ours is an oral tradition spanning thousands of generations. Our stories teach us about events from the last ice age, when long extinct animals still roamed the land, and of the changes to the land and water over millenia. They teach us to be good to one another, to listen to our Elders, look after our Country and understand how many things work. The stories which appear on here have been approved for use by the Elders and Knowledge Holders to ensure balanced and consistent public material is provided, and I thank them for their generosity. We share the following stories, told to us by Community, to help tell the history of our people, our connection to Country and our values. Understanding that there are many ways to tell a story, we invite you to treat the following as a starting point in your awareness of our ancient culture.(How Bung Yarnda was formed Narkabungdha, the sea, was tired from playing with fish, rushing over rocks and rolling up and back on the sand. He searched the coast for somewhere to rest. At last he found a quiet place with tall gum trees for shade and soft earth to lie on. Narkabungdha lay down to sleep. He wriggled down into the soft sand, turning his body this way and that until he was comfortable. This place became Bung Yarnda (Lake Tyers), a place where Narkabungdha still rests among the trees) We have always been and forever will be!