G'day.
I'm actually out here in Dieri country at the moment.
I'm about ready to show youse an area of significance to Dieri people.
As you can see, behind me here in the distance,
you've got a set of hills, which is actually the side view
of the home of what we call Kapirri-Poinjina-Wadjalinna.
Wadjilinna is the son of Pantjina Warjalina.
He had six kids.
The two of his eldest sons, which are known as terraces,
were actually the ones that looked after
all of the other siblings of theirs, the four younger ones.
Each day they would literally go out and travel around on their country,
walk around hunting and playing, like what kids usually do.
Then every day they'd go out and play with ochres and different colours
and draw designs on themselves and literally patterns,
mix the colours all together.
And what would happen is
in the afternoons before they would go home,
they would literally wash all of the colours and the ochres and that off.
Anyways, with all those colours and that there now, and the designs,
is actually how all the animals
wound up with their colours and their designs,
like the eagle, for instance,
the colours that he's got and the different patterns on him.
All the different lizards, snakes, birds of prey,
they all got their colours and everything
all from Wadjalinna's kids playing
and painting themselves up with all their designs.
One day, their father turned around and said,
'Well, you can actually go out and play anywhere you like
but do not go to the north
because to the north is where your grandfather lived.'
At that time, they did not know
that their grandfather changed from human to a giant goanna
at certain times of the year.
Anyway, they turned around and went out playing the next day,
doing the same thing,
and anyway, they ventured a little bit further north
and they come across a giant track of a goanna,
which is Pantjina Warjalina.
And anyways, they decided to follow this kapirri's track, or goanna.
And they were actually following him along,
and every now and again, one of the terraces,
which is the older brothers who were looking after the younger ones -
or the guardians, if you want to know them as -
turned around and would run up along in front all the time.
Anyways, as he was running up in front, he literally fell down.
The rest of them thought he fell down a hole,
where, in fact, he didn't actually fall down a hole.
It was the burrow of Kaparri Pantjina Warjalina.
And anyways,
when the rest of them pulled him out of the hole that he fell in,
they found out that he was actually holding onto a big goanna,
which had been killed because of the hole caving in.
The father had a premonition of what actually happened,
and he realised that his kids had actually gone out
and killed their grandfather.
So anyways, he turned around and got all funny and shame
and wound up going into the back of his burrow and hiding in the burrow.
And anyways, they turned around and they got there
and they were looking around for him to try and find out where he was
so they could give him the best parts of the goanna to eat.
Anyways, they went into the burrow
and they found him hiding in the back of the burrow there, shame,
and he turned around and said, 'Well, why did youse go and do that?
The shame of it -
literally killing your grandfather
and not listening to his words
by saying not going to the north and to stay away from that area.'
So anyways, they turned around and felt funny
because their father had growled at them
where they thought they'd done something good.
Anyway, then they started to feel shame about what actually happened,
so they decided to go to somewhere else.
They're just walking off.
And as they were leaving,
Warjalina literally turned around,
he'd stand out there and watch them
until he could see just the bottom half,
like, from the waist up.
And then as they got further away in the distance,
all he could see was the top part
from, say, around their shoulders and that here
until he could only just see their head and that from the distance
from on top of a high hill.
So he felt funny that they were leaving,
so he decided that he wanted them to come back.
So he went and got the winds, which is the whirly winds,
to actually bring him back, or bring the two terraces back.
So anyways, he called on the winds to go and bring his two sons back,
and the winds went
and literally started bringing the boys and that back,
his two sons,
and they didn't know which way to actually bring them back.
So for him to do that,
he literally had to sing a song for the whirly winds to follow,
but for him to actually follow that,
he had to get a stone and split his tongue.
And as he split his tongue, all the blood started squirting out
and then the winds started to follow that actual path
to where the blood was
and bringing the two terraces back.
And that blood actually scattered all over the countryside
because of the winds actually swirling and throwing the blood,
scattering it as he sung so that they could be brought back.
And anyways, he went back into his burrow, which is Warjalina,
he went back into his hole
and kept on going so that the wind could actually bring his two sons,
the terraces, to his burrow.
And what he did,
he waited until the wind actually brought them into his burrow
and then he literally caved the hole in
so that the three of them were stuck down that hole.
And to this day there now, the three of them are still down there,
except two of them, the terraces, are actually trying to get out,
and all the rest of his kids
literally wound up scattering all over the countryside,
and that's where today you get all your lizards and snakes
and all of them different animals all come from around that same area,
from where Warjalina had actually trapped his two sons in there
because he didn't want them leaving.
And that's why today the goanna still has the forked tongue,
he's got the split tongue.