Tiddalik – Tiddalik the frog
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Tiddalik
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddalik
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/zj9spg8
Superior Judge Rozzer is on site at the Billabong Resort. There are problems at the resort. Beasties have crawled out of the lagoons and started eating people. The nasty things don’t kaboom like they should. She asks you to help Judges Lawless and Nelson.
After relieving Mr. Cane of his hostages, Superior Judge Rozzer invites you on her Explo-dition to the Pipeline. You discover that Mr. Cane has successfully tunneled to the Pink Lake and the monsters from the lagoons are actual Lucid Dreams. In the Pipeline area your wizard needs to fight off Drop Bears, Phantasmanian Devils and Tiddalik.
Tiddalik – “Water, water, water. Give me all the water. All the water, all the dreams, they are mine, my fuel, my feed, MINE!”
The tale of Tiddalik the frog is a creation story from Australian Indigenous Dreaming Stories. The legend of Tiddalik is not only an important story of the Dreamtime, but has been the subject of popular modern children’s books. In some Aboriginal language groups, Tiddalik is known as “Molok”.
In the creation myth, Tiddalik awoke one morning with an insatiable thirst and started to drink until he had gulped down all the available fresh water. Creatures and plant life everywhere began to die due to lack of moisture. Other animals conspired against Tiddalik and devised a plan for him to release all of the water he had consumed. This was successfully coordinated by a wise old owl, when Nabunum the eel made Tiddalik laugh when he tied himself in comical shapes. As Tiddalik laughed, the water rushed out of him to replenish the lakes, swamps and rivers.
The story has been said to describe the water-holding frog (Ranoidea platycephala) from central Australia. The frogs burrow underground during dry periods and emerge during the rain to absorb large amounts of water, breed and feed. This allows it to avoid desiccation during drought, a trait not exhibited by most frogs. They were used by Indigenous Australians during times of drought as a source of water.
This story is found in many places around Australia but is often attributed to the Gunaikurnai people of South Gippsland, Victoria and has spread worldwide since first being published. Tiddalik is commemorated in a statue in Warwick, Queensland. Various versions of the story were recorded by amateur ethnographers in the late nineteenth century, originating with the Gunaikurnai people near Port Albert, approximately 225 kilometers (140 mi) south-east of Melbourne. In the original story, Tiddalik formed the area’s bays, estuaries, inlets and islands. The substance of the story has changed over time, with different animals being able to make Tiddalik laugh, and many of the modern versions being dissimilar to those of the nineteenth century.
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