04-19-2016, 03:49 PM
The Wawalag Sisters
Two sisters
returning home for
a bunya nut ceremony
stopped to rest by a waterhole.
There a baby was born,
and the smell of blood woke
the python who lived at the bottom,
whose totem place this was.
He rose up and flooded the plain
so the sisters waited out the flood
on a rise. But the snake reared up
and swallowed sisters, baby, camp and fire.
He swam back to the bottom
but the fire still burned inside him.
In pain, he fled, making a trail
that filled with water and became a river.
The snake spewed his stomach empty
and when the flood waters dried up
the sisters and their baby set out again
for their homeland.
http://austhrutime.com/wawalag_sisters.htm
Two sisters
returning home for
a bunya nut ceremony
stopped to rest by a waterhole.
There a baby was born,
and the smell of blood woke
the python who lived at the bottom,
whose totem place this was.
He rose up and flooded the plain
so the sisters waited out the flood
on a rise. But the snake reared up
and swallowed sisters, baby, camp and fire.
He swam back to the bottom
but the fire still burned inside him.
In pain, he fled, making a trail
that filled with water and became a river.
The snake spewed his stomach empty
and when the flood waters dried up
the sisters and their baby set out again
for their homeland.
http://austhrutime.com/wawalag_sisters.htm