Wawulja
Warlpiri · demigod · Warlpiri traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Wawulja is an ancestral man of the Tanami whom the Warlpiri gloss as 'the Invincible'. His story carries the recurrent Central Desert motif of wrong marriage: he took his own daughters as wives, and from that union the Two Men, the Wati-Kutjarra, are descended. His figure anchors the eastern, Warlpiri-side account of the Two Men within a named genealogy, distinguishing it from the Western Desert versions of the same pair.
Children
Domains
- kinship law
- landscape track
Powers
- fathers the ancestral Two Men
Epithets
- Wawulja — the InvincibleWatson, C. (2003), Piercing the Ground, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (secondary)
Relations
- parent: MamandabariFather of the Two Men (Wati-Kutjarra) in the Tanami Warlpiri account.Watson, C. (2003), Piercing the Ground, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (secondary)
Sources
- Tanami Desert Warlpiri name the Wati-Kutjarra (Two Men) as the sons of Wawulja, glossed 'the Invincible', an ancestral man who married his own daughters.: Watson, C. (2003), Piercing the Ground: Balgo Women's Image Making and Relationship to Country, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (secondary)