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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]
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 .
Live in San Francisco '16 is a live album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The album was released on double vinyl and digital via Bandcamp on 20 November 2020. [1] An accompanying concert film was also released, which premiered on Vimeo on 18 November 2020, and was later released on YouTube. [2]
Males only reached marriageable age at around 30, after a thorough training and graduation through a complex initiatory system, that transformed tjilku (male children) into wati (men). [14] Passage to this status was marked by the right to wear a red headband, though as post-initiates ( tjawarratja ) they were still required to dwell apart from ...
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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.