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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]
Ngariman, Karadjeri quoll-man who killed the Bagadjimbiri and was drowned in revenge; Njirana, Jumu deity and father of Julana; Ungud, snake deity associated with rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans; Wagyl, Noongar snakelike creator being; Wati-kutjara, a pair of western Australian lizard-men
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).
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] He steals the Anangu grindstone and carries it home while being chased by the Anangu people. Along his journey, he digs up tjanmatjas (bush onions), creating large boulders ...
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
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. [1] [2] The women he was trying to rape became the Pleiades.
To this end they chose two warriors, Kudnu, the jew lizard, and Wulkinara his brother, to face the trio. Armed with boomerangs, they set a trap near the woman and her dogs, with Wulkinara suggesting to Kudnu that he take up position in a tree, and, on sighting the woman and her hounds, make some noise to draw their attention his way, while he ...