Description
This Dreaming belongs to Warlukurlangu country to the
south-west of Yuendumu, for which Jampijinpa/Jangala men
and Nampijinpa/Nangala women have custodial
responsibility. An old man ‘lungkarda’ (centralian bluetongued lizard [Tiliqua mulfasciata]), of the Jampijinpa
skin group, lived on a hill with his two Jangala sons. The old
man would feign blindness and send the two boys hunting in
search of meat. While they were gone he would hunt and
eat anything that he caught before they returned. One day
the sons returned with a kangaroo that they had caught
after much tracking. Unfortunately the kangaroo was sacred
to the ‘lungkarda’, unbeknown to the boys. In his anger the
old man decided to punish his sons and the next me they
went out, he put his fire stick to the ground and sent a huge
bush fire after them which chased them for many miles, at
times propelling them through the air. Although the boys
beat out the flames, ‘lungkarda’s’ special magic kept the fire
alive and it re-appeared out of his blue-tongued lizard hole.
Exhausted the boys were finally overcome by the flames. In
contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is
used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other
elements. Usually sites that are depicted in paintings of
this Jukurrpa include Warlukurlangu (a men’s cave),
Kirrkirrmanu (where the sacred kangaroo was killed),
Wayililinypa (where the fire killed the two Jangala sons)
and Marnimarnu (a water soakage) where the two Jangalas camped.
