Within the universe of the Dragons, those from the Australian Continent -continent that includes Australia, Polynesia and New Zealand- constitute the ancestors of many species venerated by other cultures. While the rest of the dragons in the world have undergone variations and adaptations, the Australians have known to conserve their initial physical form.

The Australian dragons are, without a doubt, the oldest: they come back from a mythology generated between 40 and 65 thousand years. These share peculiar similarities: they represent a primitive serpent (or worm) that rejected been sent beyond the Waters of Time. It is important to observe that although they are not exactly “dragons”, they can be classified as such although they look like serpents (they do not belong to neither with exclusive feature). For that reason you could say that the Australian dragons constitute a “dual family”.

THE MAGIC OF THE BUNYIP

The Australian dragons represent the spiritual world and the natural one: the serpent and the monster combined. The "Australian Serpent of the Rainbow" looks like an authentic viper of great size, whereas his close relative, the Bunyip, is a type of dragon related with a highly complex magical system.

The qualities attributed to each dragon include an ample range of creatures within the world of the serpents and the reptiles. The aspect of the Bunyip combines characteristics of both groups of animals, although it also posses flying qualities from birds, fish, bulls with long horns, bodies of cows or whale tails.

One of the distinguishing qualities of the mythology of the Australian Continent is that their dragons can acquire different forms. The "Taniwha" of New Zealand is an animal that suffers a metamorphosis as a sea serpent, shark, whale or lizard.