Jukurra-jukurra

Jukurra-jukurra is the Morning Star, the planet Venus seen at dawn, and an ancestral man of the Jakamarra subsection. In the Seven Sisters Dreaming he is consumed with desire for the seven Napaljarri women, but the marriage law forbids a Jakamarra from taking a Napaljarri wife. Denied, he pursues the sisters ceaselessly, and it is his chase that finally drives them to become fire and flee into the sky. Warlpiri painters at Yuendumu show him rising each morning still in pursuit of the Pleiades, a sky drama that fixes the law of right and wrong marriage in the movement of the stars.

Domains

• stars sky
• pursuit desire

Powers

• chases the Seven Sisters across the night sky

Epithets

• Jukurra-jukurra — the morning starCooee Art, Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming documentation (secondary)

Relations

• enemy: Napaljarri-warnuThe unrequited suitor who drives the sisters into the sky; forbidden their marriage by the wrong-skin law.Warlukurlangu Artists, Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming documentation, Yuendumu (secondary)

Sources

• Jukurra-jukurra, the Morning Star, is a Jakamarra man in love with the seven Napaljarri sisters, shown chasing them across the sky though forbidden to take a Napaljarri wife.: Cooee Art, 'Yanjirlpirri or Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming)' (secondary); Warlukurlangu Artists, Seven Sisters Dreaming documentation, Yuendumu (secondary)