Kukpi, the Black-Snake Woman, is one of the three principal beings of Murinbata religion that W. E. H. Stanner recorded at Port Keats, alongside Kunmanggur and Mutjingga; she is conceived as half-woman, half-snake. In her myth she travelled across the country looking for a good place to settle, testing the ground as she went with her digging-stick and so creating the springs that still exist, before making her home at Purgala. There, under a pretence of goodwill, she sent men to their destruction. Stanner and later commentators noted the parallel between Kukpi's destruction of males and Mutjingga's swallowing of the children, both being female figures whose menace is mysteriously motivated; comparison has also been drawn with the Mother-figure of the Kunapipi cult of south-eastern Arnhem Land.