Luunpa is the kingfisher woman of the Mala Tjukurpa at Uluru, an ancestral being who camped with the Mala hare-wallaby people during their ceremony on the northern side of the rock. When the devil-dog Kurpany, conjured by the affronted Wintalka men, came racing toward the camp to destroy the inma, it was Luunpa who saw it first and screamed out a warning, telling the Mala that an evil spirit was upon them. Though many Mala were killed and the rest fled south, Luunpa's cry is remembered as an act of loyalty and vigilance. She is now a large rock that keeps perpetual watch at the Ininti waterhole near Uluru, a permanent sentinel over the country. As the sacred kingfisher she is one of the several bird ancestors woven into the great Mala narrative.