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The Wati kutjara feature in innumerable stories, whose details vary from region to region. In one recension, they are credited with castrating the Man in the Moon by throwing a magical boomerang, Kidili, because he tried to rape the first woman. [5] In other versions, the Wati kutjara are the ones attempting to seduce the same group of women. [2]
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In ancestral times a large mother snake travelled down from the west to Juldi'kapi.From there it was followed by two men (the Wati Kutjara) [b] who wished to kill it. They chased the snake south-east to Pedinga water-hole (Pedinga'kapi, thirty-five miles south-east of the Ooldea Soak).
Tjilpa-men, significant mythic figures Aranda, Anmatyerre, Kaytetye, Ngalia, Ilpara and Kukatja stories. Tjilpa is the Arrernte word for quoll. Tjinimin, the ancestor of the Australian people. He is associated with the bat and with Kunmanggur the rainbow serpent - per the Murinbata; Ulanji, snake ancestor of the Binbinga; Wala, solar goddess
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According to communities of the Western Desert, the sacred inma board called by the ancestors as Wati-kutjara is represented by the dark patches of the Milky Way (pulina-pulina), between the constellations of Centaurus and Cygnus. The inma board was made and flung into the heavens, as sung in the following song verse: [1]
His grandfather's country is Pukara, a sacred men's site south of Irrunytju that is closely associated with the story of the two snake men (Wati Wanampi Kutjara). [4] [13] These are creation stories. [14] [15] Donegan's most famous painting, Papa Tjukurpa munu Pukara, combined both of these stories onto a single canvas.
The Western Desert language, or Wati, is a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama–Nyungan family.. The name Wati tends to be used when considering the various varieties to be distinct languages, Western Desert when considering them dialects of a single language, or Wati as Warnman plus the Western Desert cluster.