The Whowie - Monster of the Riverina - Yorta Yorta Myths (Australian Aboriginal) - Extra Mythology
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Once, the Tongala River, which most maps now call the Murray, was a place of peace where the Water-Rat Tribe could live with ease. But then one day appeared the Whowie: a great frog-headed lizard, long and fat and slow, prowling the banks.
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Talk about tower defense games like tiny defense and plants vs zombies and why people love them.
talk about why rts games are getting remasters i am happy but confused why
I love y'all's stories, but isn't voicing the Aboriginal people of Australia with the accent of European colonizers a little gauche?
Extra Credits and thus our friend the narrator was never heard from again.
RI-BIT.
So thats what causes minecraft scary cave noises
Dopillopon so the villager are the tribes and the villager kill the beast. Still scary
XD
No wonder you have to go into a stronghold in a deep cave to find the Whowie(Ender Dragon)...
Well the,n...
XD
@@lyne3640 the beast is the ravenger
Normal Places: Toad
Australia: The Whowie
Or the cane toad. Both are terrifying
So... the next encounter of my D&D group
My first thought after the description was "Why has this thing not, to my knowledge, been made into an official D&D monster?" They use so many other creatures from the myths off various cultures, including some from Australia, and the Whowie seems like it should have been a shoe-in!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
Yees!!
I have said before that setting a RPG in australia using then Aboriginal myths and culture as its core would be a fantastic way to teach non aboriginal people about their cultures. Australia is a big place and the Aboriginal nations are wide and diverse with lots of different spirits and stories that could be used to make an adventuring party very happy for a good while.
For instance moving from nation to nation would be like moving from city to city in normal D&D. Different culture, make sure you keep them happy by knowing what you need to do to gain access (message sticks etc) and have to deal with their individual nations troubles and creatures. Many of the animals in the dreamtime stories are also anthropomorphised so that adds a lot of texture too.
It would take a dedicated team a lot of time to research and write but I think it would be well worth it.
I can imagine seeing this somewhere in Australia tbh...
At one time, give or take 60 000 years, you probably would have. Megalania basically fits the description of the Whowie, minus the six legs.
It actually sounds strikingly similar to Koolasuchus, a gigantic salamander whose fossils have been found in Australia. Just with a few extra legs and a miles deep cave. I wouldn’t be surprised if fossils of something like that inspired this legend.
@@GallowglassVT rip in peace giant three toed sloth, you wern't sanic enough.
How does a giant Monitor lizard have the face of a frog?
RocaDeearCenjar
Mayhaps, there was a great monator lizard that had evolutionary adaptions to make it more frog like?
Something I love about Aborigine myth is that a lot of their monsters sound eerily similar to Australia's prehistoric beasts. This Whowie sounds a lot like the real life giant lizard called Megalania, which ancient Australians met and very well may have driven to extinction. Same can be said for the semiaquatic giant Bunyip creature, which sounds a lot like the wombat like extinct Diprotodon. The Aborigine cultures are considered the oldest still in existence, and their stories reflect that.
Does the monster remind anyone else of the megalania lizard? I mean humans probably met her in australia and its facade could have been passed down through generations with a few alterations
I came to the comments looking if someone else thought of this.
Stauros Menexes Ditto!
Stauros Menexes what a genius damn
I don't think megalania and humans existed at the same time.. But maybe in wrong
Monsters We Met, a BBC documentary, used the framing of this story for its Megalania encounter.
*Hears description of the creature. Slowly reaches for Insect Glaive* I see....
Whowie Urgent Plz Help
I don’t play monster hunter and I get that reference....
*quietly grabs my heavy bowgun and joins the hunt
_pulls out Longsword_ Let's do this.
Eantrin
Honestly, I’m impressed Garalt hadn’t fought a creature like this before...
Thank you for the Aboriginal content. We would love to see it continue.
Seconded (well, 88'd)
Wow im part of the yorta yorta tribe and ive never heard this story. Im happy extra credits are doing aboriginal storys
I live in yarrabah brother Gandhige trib
It's not often we see Aboriginal Australian traditions and Dreamtime stories discussed in the west or even in Australia outside of kindergarten for many of us, which is such a shame for such ancient and rich cultures. Thanks for making this video and I hope you'll revisit Dreamtime stories in the future!
This is a cool monster. I'm gonna use it in a dnd campaign.
WHY HAS NO ONE MADE A MONSTER HUNTER MOD OR EVEN A HORROR GAME OUT OF THIS LEGEND?! THIS IS LEGIT BOTH THE MOST EPIC AND TERRIFYING THING I HEARD!
Yeah and a plushie!
Anyone else got a really weird, kid-focused sidebar from this video?
Yes, me too. I'm like uh... How does my history of history, swords, writing, cookery and strategy games lead to this???
I think someone messed up their tags when they uploaded this video.
I have a bunch of Peppa Pig videos down my side bar, what the heck CZcams?
Same. Scrolled down to see if the Joan of Arc series updated, and ...Peppa and Mud Pies w/real worms!!! 🤨
Yeah, sometimes CZcams randomly decides im a four year old
@@curator_z I get videos from some spanish kids channel called las ratitas. CZcams doing it's monetized bullshit again
I'm really happy to see these Australian Aboriginal ones.
The guy saying “I don’t like camping” during the celebrations is honestly a mood, I like that guy
I'm still gutted you didnt carry on with the Gilgamesh tale... I for one loved the comical, wtf-y vibe you gave it.
I demand to see the Underworld adventure to get Enkidu back from the vindictive Ishtar!
gilgamesh's was a uniquely weird and dude-broish tale so the tone was suitable
Omggg this brings back so much memories lol
I remember being in Kindergarten and being taught Aboriginal mythology and there were tons of books about them in the school library and they were fire
Ikr, i love dreamtime
Yea, those books were fun to read.
Seconded 👍
*_Wowie, it's a Whowie!!!_*
Oowee!
-- Mr. Poopybutthole
Wilburgur?
Pixie? Is that you??
I wonder if the Whowie is a mythologized memory of Megalania?
Probably. Fits the description pretty well.
Lol! Just commented something similar before I saw this one.
But Megalania is a reptile, so isn't it cold-blooded? If it is cold-blooded, why is it active during the night?
Unlikely, as the distribution for the Megalania and the tribe's region are two completely different ones, but good thought nonetheless.
Grevyalres X With how massive it is, it could probably retain a good amount of body heat well into the night. For a modern example, look at crocs and gators. Both are known to remain active at night despite being exothermic.
Whowie vs Emu Army.
Who would win?
Well, considering there was a time when Australia went to war with the emus and lost, it would be quite the battle.
m.czcams.com/video/BXpu6tbFCsI/video.html
Whowie
@@guardsmanlars6797 emu>white clo aussie>native aussie>whowie i assume
the emus
obviously the emus
Stalks a monster long, and fat, and slow.
Sounds like me at midnight
Sub if u agree
Yeetus Deletus lol
Finding em beans.
Me going for the shredded cheese at 3 am
Me and the boys at 3am looking for beans
Same
Considering around that time this takes place there was an actual real life creature called the megalania (basically a Komodo dragon but as big as the thing in this story) and it fits the descriptions it almost perfectly especially since it was around with humans either that or the koolasuchus thing
5:12 *I don't like camping*
Also thanks for doing The Dreamtime, while I'm not aboriginal, this brings me memories of my childhood🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😊
Siri: How much weed do I need to smoke to enter the Dreamtime cause this basically seems like the creation of a few people on weed
cool i name and pic ( ;
or one average RPG session
*beep* You will require 4 kilograms of Eucalyptus Light. Contacting buyer. *dial tone*
Google Megalania
@@Sonic62920 is that a joke about koalas
"Out in the Dreamtime, Stalks a Monster: Long, and Fat, and Slow."
So Basically he's talking about Me finally going to Bed at 3AM.
bruh
Commander Stupid so your the 1 eating the midnight snacks at night you are really a big fat monster.
Dreamtime stories are the best, especially when it comes to the spirits and monsters.
"A monster long, fat and slow".
(Jokes involving "like your mom?" incoming)
That's not nice to the frog...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Dude!I'm Dead!
Deliver, dont tease
Long four men, with six legs and a frog head
*Sounds like one of my drawings when I was five*
what you hear: 0:09
what i hear:
The forgotten Beats Whowie has come. It has six arms, a Toads head and a bloated Body. Beware of his sticky tongue. Now you know why you fear the Night! XD
That's why I never explore caverns
@@thezipcreator i like to hunt them, good resources and a fine meal!
5:12 Guy: "I don't like camping"
That guy is literally me.
(In the background)
A lot of stories from the dreaming are great allegories or have metaphor meanings, but with the Whowie it’s actually a literal event. The Megalania was a Monitor lizard in Australia that went extinct about 50,000 years ago, meaning it was one of the megafauna species that aboriginal nations would have encountered in their first 5-10,000 years of settlement around the Murray river area (which also used to connect up to a network of inland seas)
Aboriginal's didn't have nations. Insecure fools love to spread that lie.
Am I the only one who looks at whowie and thinks of Konosuba's Aqua?
Lightspeeds because it’s useless
What? Is that japanese myth?
Wow. This Monster is really fascinating, A big toad lizard that moves silently.
Bryce McKenzie sarcasm
Master of Stealth
I now see where Dwarf Fortress gets its inspirations for Titans and Forgotten Beasts.
“Out in the dream time stalks a monster long fat and slow” did you just see me wake up to shredded cheese at 3am?
As an American, i dont know anything about Australian Aboriginal myth which is a shame because the brief snippets i hear sound really interesting.
Very cool that you guys are covering all kinds of cultures on this channel.
I like how he gave Aboriginals Australian accents.
yo EC, can we have more Indigenous Australian stories? Maybe like the rainbow snake etc
Monster: Is called The whowie, basically an onomatopoeia for a loud noice.
Monsters greatest strenght: Full-on splinter cell stealth
You know, Giant six legged amphibian is a pretty solid monster.
How is this not a DnD monster?
Check out the Behir.
I love these videos. Thanks for bringing these stories to light!!
EM: Out in the Dreamtime stalks a monster long and fat and slow...
Me: I just came to have a good time, and I’m just feeling attacked right now...
Following for a while now and still love the work. Never dull, always fun!
Myth is the smoke of history..... This and the extra history episodes are great luv u extra history and mythology keep up the good work
It's good to know how to pronounce that! Having only ever read it, I've long been calling it the "Wow-wee" instead of "Hoo-wee." Now I must say, "Whoopsie~!"
The thumbnail made me think this was gonna be about a big worm... Glad I was wrong
Me too I'm done with abnormally long worms. While in Korea I saw a worm over a foot long and over an inch thick. Worms are disgusting.
The funniest part is how, based on this tale; the Whowie could've absolutely been a foot away and you'd have heard the wind alone.
I love the presentation of all these random but insanely interesting myths!
well, I think its time to start invest in a flamethrower from elon musk
lets go camping boys
HANS GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER
@Yevhenii Diomidov "That's not a [flamethrower]! *This* is a [flamethrower]!" -Crocodile Dundee anyone, or am I old? ;)
Would love to see more dreamtime stories.
It's a shame that with the cultures and the eradication of those cultures all we glimpse as outsiders is but the tip.
Water Rat Tribe:exists
The Whowie: delicious. Finally some good fucking food.
" it can move with out a whisper ,without a noise louder the wind of the wads.... and so slowly and silently it will come up on sleeping camps--
Whowie: * Sr Pelo Running Sound Effect *
Man the muppets got dark
Why does the one guy have an Australian accent of a modern Australian if he is an aboriginal?
“I’m not going to fall for that” famous last words.
I love this kind of stuff from you guys. History, myths, and the like. Keep up this kind of good content. It’s good stuff.
The Australian accent I’m dying
I LOVE those australian mythology stories! Please more!
Its a tradition so often overlooked in our western ignorance
The Dreamtime is wonderful, it brings back childhood memories.
Loving ya Dreamtime stories man!! You guys rock!! 😁😁😁
This monster surprisingly have a lot of descriptions of habits and behaves way more detailed then your average run of the mill monsters, almost like a normal real life animal
My guess is they may have seen other animal behavior and cobbled it together
A thicc lizard but not as incredibly thicc as Gaston
Why do I find u every where
5:14 that face...
FACE WILL HAUNT MY DREAMS
Fascinating seeing some Australian mythology for once.
It's getting better these days, but there's been a long period of time where most of us wouldn't have heard stories like these.
We just didn't seem to have enough respect for Aboriginal culture to actually bother to listen to tales like these...
You mean aboriginal mythology?
I love the way the Whowie is drawn and described.
It's silent not invisible. Why not get a bunch of people to keep watch?
Who else thinks this channel is awesome?!
I want to but other youtubers said I cant
bubbles090 the law requires that I agree
Wow thank you so much, i loved your previous video and im learning so much about Aboriginal culture, again its a shame my school doesn't teach us this.
Such a good video mate
You: Hooey
Me, an intellectual: *Wowie*
Sounds like something that would be generated in Dwarf Fortress
Whowie, this video is amazing!
It figures that Australia would have cool-ass monsters given how weird the real animals there are. Intriguing concept with how it initially looks harmless. IMHO Amphibia have lots of untapped monster potential
It's also cool how the stories are woven into the landscape, referring to its features, and as in the previous one you get the sense that this was a very "honor your elders" type of culture in the olden days
considering australia is... australia, i really wouldn't be surprised if this was an actual creature and not just a myth.
“A monster long, and fat, and slow-“
Me?
Me:*sees thumbnail*
Also me: I’ve seen enough anime to know where this is going
Love these videos!
Yo! Awesome video, you guys should do a video on Philippine mythology, it's really weird and cool (specifically Mt. Mayon's story)
Fake
@@muhamadirfanisamily7663 ?
Sounds, to me, like an allegory for death, itself; ponderous but inevitable, dreaded yet indiscriminate, & so subtle that its victims never wake & its presence is often dismissed.
So the myth could, just as easily, be called "How we Murdered Death!"
🤘
Honestly, I’m so glad I know about this monster now because it’s probably one of my new favorite things
it is my second year in Sydney and I appreciate the fact that Australia gets some shout out in this channel
Several people have already mentioned the megalania lizard.
Another possibility that comes to mind is the Asian giant salamander.
(A creature that doesn't seem to exist in Australia, but maybe in the distant past...❓🤔)
Joe Rogers thay do live in new guinea though, and at the end of the last ice age the australian first nations did trade with the new guidelines, that doesn't explain why the whowie myths are from central australia but it's still a possibility
The ancestors of most Native Australians certainly came from Asia, but I dunno if they came from that far north.
Show of hands, who else flashed back to Shaggy saying "the Yawie-Yahoo?"
✋🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️
pyrosianheir me, me! 🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻
Aslo: y u do dis, y u make me feel old?
Because I'm old too. XD
✋🏾
What a lovely story on cause and effect, cooperation, communication and goal setting/delegation.
“Where’s my dragonator”
But how was there blood if it swallowed?
*violently* swallowed
6:31
There exists somewhere on the internet somewhat questionable fanart for occasions such as this.
Great dream time story choice!
That was great, also glad to know how to pronounce it now.
I'm a Yorta Yorta man and it's so refreshing and strange feeling seeing content about my culture.
Considering its Australia thats probably not a myth.
Imagine actually travelling in those miles long tunnels when ur so slow, lol.
When I saw the first scene of the whowie here, I thought, that looks like it could probably be in a Monster Hunter game
i live halfway across the world, and if i can somehow meet Michio Kaku, I'll tell him you're sorry👍
Sounds like the people were just being eaten by a giant crocodile or fish but they had a different name for it. There are reports even today of giant fish and crocodiles big enough to eat people.
It gets too cold down that way for crocodiles.
Whowie!!!!!
You guys taught me a lot!!!!
I love these myths of other cultures. (It also gives me great ideas for D&D sessions)
No monster is as dangerous as Shrimp on the barbie
A mantis shrimp in yer aquarium
Why does people think "shrimp on the barbie" is an Australian thing?
1. They are not shrimps in Australia, they are prawns.
2. Who da faq puts them on a barbie?!
And don't forget Foster's.
@@aussieendeavor36791 small tasty prawn / yabbies
2 hungry blokes /shelas
Talk about tower defense games like tiny defense and plants vs zombies and why people love them.
*toadstool intensifies*
Ngl when I heard "long, and fat, and slow" that kinda stung