Boaliri is the junior of the two Wawalag sisters (Wagilag sisters in north-central Arnhem Land), an ancestral woman of the Dhuwa moiety; some recorded tellings give her name as Garangal. Heavily pregnant, she travelled north with her elder sister Waimariwi, and the two camped at the well of the Great Copper Python at Mirrirmina. As the storm gathered they sang and danced through the night to hold off the rising serpent, but Yurlunggur swallowed them and their children before disgorging them. Their songs and the swallowing are the heart of the Kunapipi ritual recorded by W. Lloyd Warner and Ronald M. Berndt.