The Sky Father of Southeastern Australia

Baiame is a creator and Sky Father figure documented across several Aboriginal peoples of southeastern Australia, including the Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, Euahlayi and neighbouring nations of what is now New South Wales, described in the publicly recorded portions of Dreaming narrative as having travelled across the land during the ancestral creative period, shaping physical features and establishing the law, ceremony and social order that governs the people who hold this tradition. Baiame is associated in the public record with several significant sites, including carved and painted rock art figures, some of considerable age and size, found at locations across the region, which are understood by the communities who maintain them as depictions of Baiame connected to specific traditional narratives and ceremonial law.

As with the wider body of Aboriginal Australian religious tradition, Baiame's full significance includes ceremonial and Law content that is restricted according to gender, age and initiation status within the communities that hold it, and this entry deliberately limits itself to the general, publicly documented outline of the figure rather than describing or summarising any such restricted material.