Refer to the Newsela article "Australian Aborigines and the Dreamtime When the World Was Created."

Part A

What does the author explain about the inclusion of a sun goddess in the stories from different aboriginal groups?


Some groups only mention a sun goddess in relation to the goddess Yhi.

Each group has a sun goddess that follows the same story for all groups.

Each group has a sun goddess, but her specific story is different for each group.

Some groups do not include the story of a sun goddess.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer to Part A?


"In the west, Bila is a sun goddess who roasted humans each day over the fire that lit the world. To save humans, Kudnu, the Lizard Man, and Muda, the Gecko Man, threw a boomerang at her."

"She [Bila] turned into a ball of fire, which ran off, leaving the world in darkness."

"Yhi lay sleeping in a dark Dreamtime, before the world was created, when a strange whistling sound woke her up. As her eyes opened, the world became full of light."

"In southeast Australia she is Gnowee, who in Dreamtime, when the world was dark, lost her son.…In northern Australia the solar goddess can be Wala, who travels across the sky each day."