Some of us think we follow the Yanks , the guys with an eagle holding arrows.
Greek-Romans were in south India 2100 years ago and in north Bali Indonesia. A king in Tamil Nadu wore a Roman helmet on his coins.The legions followed Jupiter whose eagle of the Aquila eagle constellation carried his thunderbolts. Victoria goddess of Victory is on a coin with Jupiter.
A king from Java escaped an attack in 1222 and went to land of gods, disappeared without trace. Bundjalung people of north NSW remember that a boat arrived and the men gave laws to countries.

..In Australian Aboriginal mythology, in Victoria, Bunjil the eagle is a creator deityand made laws..Bunjil became the star Altair.
..Altair is also known as Alpha Aquilae in the constellation Aquila the Eagle.
Bunjil's name is given to the palnet Jupiter which our people believe is Bunjil's campfire.

..The eagle (Aquila) was the bird of Jupiter. Aquilifer: ensign of a Roman legion who carried the eagle.

Weapons were used against intruders and the law arranged for a welcome ceremony when ceremonial spears were snapped to indicate peace. Like arrows and olive branch in the claws of the US eagle.
The US now follows Australia's lead in defending democracy and liberty for freedom-loving justice in Jupiter we trust.

What?
I want whatever he's on!

The boat landed at Yamba.NSW. The strong god there is Mahaji which means respected lord in Indonesia. The expression Mahadev Mahaji means god Shiva in Marathi language, India. The king Kertajaya in Java declared himself to be Shiva ( when previous kings just represented him). He told his Hindu and Buddhist priests to worship him and they were outraged and led Ken Arok to attack. Kertajaya had a naval and merchant fleet which had been sailing to west Papua. Bundjalung people say the men on the boat gave laws to countries. The Clarence river leads to Tenterfield region from where headwaters flow to the Darling river. Bourke area was getting greenstone axes from near Melbourne where Bunjil is the eagle of Jupiter and the Eagle constellation.

Actually Suse, I really don't think you do.

Agreed Bugsy!

The Kadimarkara of lake Eyre seems to be the makara of Indonesia.
Sanskrit kadhi means ocean , so kadimarkara is ocean crocodile.

... fossil animals or reptiles which are found in the deltas of the rivers emptying themselves into Lake Eyre, and which the Dieri called Kadimarkara.

(Non-marine sediments of the Lake Eyre Basin in the north of the state contain diverse vertebrate faunas of Tertiary age, including lungfish, crocodiles and strange marsupials.)

Kakakudana and the Origin of the Mound Springs: A Legend of the Urabunna Tribe

This legend professes to account for the origin of the fossilised marsupials and other creatures which are found in several places in the Lake Eyre district, and also for that of the mound springs .. These fossils are called by the tribes-people Kadimarkara, creatures which in the Mura-mura times descended from the sky-country to the earth, by means of great trees which grew on the eastern shores of Lake Eyre, and supported the sky.

..Kakakudana lived to the west of Lake Eyre. . At Pitalina he dug after a Kadimarkara, which he killed underground,. The place where he killed the Kadimarkara is marked by springs.

Sanskrit कधि माकर ocean crocodile : kadhi mAkara. "salt-water crocodile". Lake Eyre is a salt sea. Indonesian language is about 50% Sanskrit words.

Makara (Sanskrit: मकर) is a sea-creature in Hindu mythology._ wiki

..The mythological sea creature Makara can be found in many ancient temples in Indonesia, often depicted at a temple's entrance gate.

Old Javanese. makara (Skt a kind of sea-monster, sometimes confounded with the crocodile, shark, dolphin etc.; regarded as the emblem of Kāmadewa; represented as an ornament on gates ) .
: sculpture in makara shape on buildings (temple, bathing-place etc), often serving as waterspout; also waterspout in other shapes .
(Skt) the 10th sign of the zodiac (Capricorn)