Bunjil, Supreme Creator
Bunjil, the eagle-hawk, is the supreme creator god of the Koori peoples of Victoria. He had two wives and a son, Binbeal, the rainbow. Bunjil created the mountains and rivers, the flora and fauna, and taught humans how to live. He then asked Bellin-Bellin, the crow, his rival, to open his bag and let the wind out. When Bellin-Bellin did so, such a powerful wind blew that it tore the trees from all the land. But Bunjil kept asking for more wind, and Bellin-Bellin opened the bag even wider, until Bunjil and his family were carried up into the sky world.
The Koori believed that the sky was held up by four posts. Shortly after the arrival of the first white men, word spread that the eastern post was rotting… and soon after, the sky collapsed.