#namarrkon

[baambastic]

“Speak my name!” The Wizard cried. “Speak my name and take your rightful place as Champion!”

The girl looked, and saw expectation. She said nothing, awaiting the anger that followed inaction.

“Speak, girl!” The Wizard cried again.

The girl still stood there, as her lips stood still. She saw no anger in the man, only hope.

The girl saw the same growing in herself, fledgling and unfamiliar.

“Speak my name, Cassandra!” The Wizard shouted still.

Understanding dawned.

The girl’s lips parted.

Once more, the Wizard cried out. “Speak the Word!”

And for the first time in her young life, Cassandra spoke.

“SHAZAM!”

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Namarrkon the Aboriginal god of Lightning

This god ejaculates lightning. The circle around the main figure is electricity and on his knees are stone hammers that if they touch cause thunder.

Namarrkon is the lightning spirit, the source of the fierce tropical storms in Western Arnhem Land during the wet season. During the dry season, he lives in a billabong not far from Numbuwah, a sacred rock in Western Arnhem Land. Namarrkon’s dreaming site (djadjan) is a slight projection in the outline of the Arnhem Land escarpment. It consists of three fused pillars, one with a circular hole near the top. This is a few km NE of the Nourlangie Rock tourist site to the east of Koongarra saddle. Namarggon left one eye (the hole) to watch for the monsoon, but also to watch his estranged wife, whose home is a cave in a pillar near Koongarra. Namarrkondjadjan is well-named, as the promontory creates the earliest intense lightning storms.

[desiirepath]

Wamud Namok Namarrkon (Lightnight Spirit), 2000

[ignisregina]

@huntingtogether from here

Gadreel leaned against the wall, taking advantage of the mostly quiet moment to catch his breath before he looked over at Marianne. Even with his grace, things seemed skewed decidedly not in their favor, enough so at least where they will really have to try to fight their way out of the situation. "Your survival is reward enough for getting out of this, Marianne." He glances around the corner for a moment before blinking, turning back to her. "Unless you want to get dinner with me?"

Marianne almost laughed at Gadreel's initial response. Their situation was no joking matter but his seriousness was on an entirely different level. "That's exactly what I meant - dinner with you, genius." She had been in a bind before but this one was a clear standout. It didn't matter that he is more than a capable hunter - there was a huge gap in their abilities and that of an ancestral being of massive destruction, such as the Namarrkon, even when it's not at its peak condition. Thankfully. "It will release another bolt in a bit." She counted the intervals. "But I have an idea." There wasn't any time to explain what it was but if her hands - glowing like ambers, flame dancing ghost-like over them - were any indication, it's going to be explosive.

[polarconfiguration]

https://www.aboriginal-bark-paintings.com/namarrkon-2/

[briery]

Arnhem land rock art, Namarrkon Lightning Spirit.

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Namarrkon the lightning Spirit is a spirit of Kunwinjku people, Oenpelli, Western Arnhem Land.

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[momolady]

Was bored and looking up stuff when I found this guy and thought the very last statement was funny. In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Mamaragan or Namarrkon is a lightning god who speaks with thunder as his voice. He rides a storm-cloud and throws lightning bolts to humans and trees. He lives in a puddle. THE dude lives in a puddle. Not any puddle, just a puddle. This made me laugh really hard, and having just read one of your stories, made me laugh harder because I imagined a RomCom scenario.

I can’t...oh my god.

Just imagining thosnall powerful god with a voice of thunder and he just squats into a puddle

I can’t! It’s too good

[melodymsg]

For school I had to make 15 (now 10 cuz quarantine) pieces with a central theme over the course of the year, so I chose to do thunder gods!

Thunder gods in order:

Thunderbird

Pele and Kamapua’a

Raijin

Chaac

Set and Osiris

Thor

Namarrkon

Whaitiri

Aktzin

Oya

[isabellagracefyfe]

On our way to Kakadu National Park we had a stopover in Mary River National Park. In the morning we saw thousands of birds flocking above the wetlands. We saw many Jabirus, Brolgas and Herons. Once within Kakdu’s wetlands I spotted some Jacana birds, Magpie Geese and an elusive crocodile!

Kakadu has many impressive landscapes and feels incredibly vast and brooding. We enjoyed our time slowing down and taking it all in from the savannah woodlands to the wetlands to the waterfalls to the giant termite mounds and the towering sandstone escarpment country. 

We enjoyed going on a few short walks including the Burrungkuy (Nourlangie) walk where we saw incredible rock depictions of Namarrkon (lightning man). There was a lot of firing of country whilst we were they which made the sunsets all the more spectacular. The mozzies were bloody annoying though!

[cavinmorrisgallery]

Bobby Ngainmijra Namarrkon, The Lightning Man, 1988 Chalk/paper 31" x 21.5" BN 24

http://www.cavinmorris.com

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Namarrkon The lightning Spirit. Aboriginal culture

[thirtyknives]

Not sure why the OP decided to put a random capital K in there. But the stories of Namarrkon comes from the Bininj people of Arnhem Land. They are the traditional owners of Kakadu National Park.

Indigenous Australian Lightning God NamarrKon

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Artwork by Yirawala

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Aboriginal painting by Nguleingulei

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Cave painting of Aboriginal God of thunder and lightning Namarrkon