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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]
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]
The song’s stanzas follow his travels through the land, where he is portrayed with human characteristics. [ citation needed ] In the myth, Ngiṉṯaka travels from his home near the Western Australia border to the camp of another lizard tribe, near Oodnadatta , in search of a better grindstone. [ 1 ]
Here the Wati Kutjara speared the snake, wounding it severely. They left it thus, thinking that it would soon die, and returned to the west. The snake, however, managed to crawl on a little distance (about two miles) to the south to an ochre pan, named Mul'tan'tu .
Wati-kutjara (Australia Aboriginal) – Goanna spirits; Wa-won-dee-a-megw – Shapeshifting snail spirit; Wechuge – Human-eating supernatural creature; Weiße Frauen – Female spirit; Wekufe – Demon; Wendigo – Cannibalistic evil spirit; Wentshukumishiteu – Water spirit
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"Celebration of the Lizard" was performed in its entirety at several Doors concerts, with a complete live performance of the piece appearing on the band's 1970 live album Absolutely Live and on the 1991 live compilation album In Concert.
In Australian aboriginal mythology (specifically: Mandjindja), Kidili (or Kidilli) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to rape some of the first women on Earth.The Wati-kutjara wounded him in battle, castrating him with a boomerang, and he died of his wounds in a waterhole.