Tunnels through earth creating rivers and valleys

Rainbow Serpent

moving across an undifferentiated earth, its huge body carved out the winding courses of rivers, gouged waterholes, and pushed up mountains and ridges in its wake.

Gurangatch

It tunnels through the earth, leaving behind rivers and shaping the landscape.

Unhcegila

This behemoth is said to dwarf mountains, its immense body capable of carving out riverbeds and valleys as it moves across the land.

Amaru

Amaru's powers in Andean folklore center on its capacity to transform the landscape: it is credited with carving river courses and canyons through the earth as it moves, and its emergence from the ground or from a lake is associated with earthquakes, floods, and other violent geological upheavals.

Kurrea

This story is generally told as an origin account, explaining a particular watering hole said to have been formed by the hollow the Kurrea's frightened spinning left behind, one that fills and becomes useful for drinking during the wet season.