Ngapa Jukurrpa - Puyurru

The site depicted in this painting is Puyurru, west of Yuendumu. In theusually dry creek beds are water soakages or naturally occurring wells.Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm.It travelled across the country, with the lightning striking the land.This storm met up with another storm from Wap;urtali, to the west, waspicked up by a (brown falcon) and carried further west until it droppedthe storm at Purlungyanu, where it created a giant soakage. At Puyurruthe bird dug up a giant snake, kirrkarlanwarnayarra the rainbowserpent, and the snake carried water to create the large lake,Jillyiumpa, close to an outstation in this country. This story belongsto Jangala men and Nangala women.