Laindjung (in modern orthography Lany'tjung) is the great ancestral hero of the Yirritja moiety of north-east Arnhem Land, the Yirritja counterpart to the Dhuwa Djang'kawu. In the tradition recorded by W. Lloyd Warner he rose out of the salt water of Blue Mud Bay with his face and body streaked by foam, mud and water-weed; in related clan accounts he and Barama emerged from the fresh-water well at Gangan covered in the same markings. From these patterns came the sacred cross-hatched designs (miny'tji), songs, dances and ceremonial objects that Laindjung distributed to each Yirritja clan as its law and title to country. He is closely linked with Barama and, in the Yolngu bark-painting tradition, with his messenger or son Banaidja and his brother Garaginya.