Marindi is the ancestral dog of the Diyari (Dieri) people of the Lake Eyre basin, South Australia. In the age of the ancestral beings, the gecko ancestor Adnoartina challenged the great dog Marindi to a fight beside a dry watercourse; waiting until the cool of dusk, the gecko seized the dog by the throat, its sharp teeth sinking in until the red blood spurted out, pouring over the rocks and dyeing them red. That blood remains in the land as the red ochre (karku) of Pukardu (Bookartoo) Hill near Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges, a site now dual-named Parachilna Ochre Mine/Vukartu Ithapi. Diyari men made celebrated expeditions of hundreds of kilometres to mine this ochre, which was understood as the transformed blood of the dog and was essential to ceremonies such as the Mindari peace ceremony and to trade throughout the Lake Eyre basin. The legend was published by A. W. Howitt in 1904 and again, from informants of the Diyari country, by George Horne and George Aiston in 1924; some modern retellings transfer the bloodstain to Uluru, but the ethnographic accounts fix it at the Parachilna ochre mine.