Anyinginyi Manuku Apparr: Stories from Our Country

Mungamunga Spirits

Kunjarra
D. Stokes Nampin

Kunjarra is the main area where the Mungamunga women traveled through there. They was traveling through this country, through this Warumungu country and they, as they traveled along, they two traveled in two lines. They traveled in two lines, that's why if we got more dancers we put more kids or other people in back so we know there's two groups traveling, like dancing along. And its meaning to us that it's a group of people dancing even though it comes out in the dream of people who dream about it and those Mungamunga spirits give them this how to dance so they, they can't break it up, they have to do the right thing. Cause if we do anything wrong we'll get sick, cause it's a strong spirit that we believe in and we carry on today. I just sit and listen to them old ladies, see we got to do that, it's that way, Wumpurrarni way, our law. Them elders, we just sit and listen, I follow them then. I'm still dancing that way.

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