Yingarrna Dreamtime StoryThe Yingarrna dreamtime story is about the earth mother and the first children of the Western Arnhem Land tribes. As told and painted by Leslie Nawirridj A woman came from the east. She was carrying lots of string bags. Every bag had lots of children inside, mainly boys. She went to the floodplain on the other side of the East Alligator River, and put children there. Then she went and put children at other different places. She kept traveling all over. Yingarrna went back to the floodplain and circumcised the children there, but they died afterwards. So they became non-circumcising people. She went back to the east and circumcised the children she had left there. They didn’t die, so today those children are still circumcised. Yingarrna kept traveling around everywhere until all the children had been placed out of her string bags. They were the children of the first tribes.
Compiled by Alison Nawirridj
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