Blue tongued Nungarrayi was staying at the soakage. She was missing her husband, and she was crying for that Jangala. She started singing for him.
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
That Jangala was far away, but he made a fire and in the distance Nungarrayi could see. She started crying again for that Jangala.
Nungarrayi took the fire stick and started walked towards Jangala’s fire, but the fire stick went out.
In the distance that Jangla’s fire still burned, and Nungarrayi kept walking toward it.
When she finally arrived she saw that Jangala had gone hunting, but when he returned he was happy to see her.
‘Why did you come?’ Jangala asked Nungarrayi.
‘Because the fire you burned made me lonely for you’ said Nungarrayi.
They stayed together at Karrinyarla at the soakage, where they were very happy.
Two boys were born there, at Karrinyarla, and they became blue tongue lizards.
That is why blue tongue lizards have special dark marks under their eyes, from all that crying.
About Jukurrpa Stories
Jukurrpa Stories are produced at PAW Media, an Indigenous media organisation in the remote community of Yuendumu, NT. Stories are developed at the Billingual Resource Development Unit in Yuendumu, along with other Warlpiri language teaching resources.
Voiced by Esau Japanangka Marshall
Recording and Sound Design: Esau Japanangka Marshall
Story: Ormay Gallagher Nangalarlu
Additional Translation: Theresa Napurrurla Ross
Podcast Tile Image: Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming), Jeanie Napangardi Lewis, Warlukurlangu Artists
