In the best works by Otto Pareroultja trees were painted as ancestral beings with body-like trunks & arm-like branches.

There are others that represent ancestral beings who were, according to mythology, changed into birds.

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Crow is a trickster, culture hero and ancestral being.

The figures in his paintings, ancestral beings, are obscured and encoded for cultural reasons.

The narrative follows the lie of the land, as created by ancestral beings in their journey or during creation.

The Yowie and Bunyip are other ancestral beings.

The common idea behind all these creation stories is that places like Uluṟu are physical evidence of the activities of ancestral beings.

Aṉangu believe they are directly descended from these ancestral beings.

They believe that their culture was created at the beginning of time by ancestral beings.

Many plants are associated with ancestral beings.