Ungud, known to the Ngarinyin as Wunggud or Wunggurr, is the great serpent being of the earth and its deep, permanent waters, and at the same time the generative essence that name denotes. Where Walanganda is the sky, Ungud is the land: the serpent's body forms the rivers and the springs, and coils, unmoving, in the sacred waterholes. From wunggud held in these waters come the spirit-children who become people, and it is in the water, in dreaming, that the soul of a Wandjina is found. Sources describe Ungud as neither simply male nor female, and treat serpent, water and life-essence as one continuous power rather than a single anthropomorphic figure.