tunnels-through-earth-creating-rivers-and-valleys

Rainbow Serpent · salience 0.95

“moving across an undifferentiated earth, its huge body carved out the winding courses of rivers, gouged waterholes, and pushed up mountains and ridges in its wake.”

Gurangatch

“It tunnels through the earth, leaving behind rivers and shaping the landscape.”

Unhcegila

“This behemoth is said to dwarf mountains, its immense body capable of carving out riverbeds and valleys as it moves across the land.”

Amaru

“Amaru's powers in Andean folklore center on its capacity to transform the landscape: it is credited with carving river courses and canyons through the earth as it moves, and its emergence from the ground or from a lake is associated with earthquakes, floods, and other violent geological upheavals.”