Uluru
Tjukurpa teaches that in the beginning the world was flat and featureless. Tjukuritja, the ancestral beings, emerged from this void and traveled widely across the country, shaping the landscape as they went. Trees and mountains and living creatures were all created by Tjukuritja on these journeys, and some of their spirit remains behind in each. The spirit of the Tjukuritja remains in the landscape through which they traveled.
"The tourist comes here with his camera taking pictures all over. What has he got? Another photo to take home, keep part of Uluru. He should get another lens - see straight inside. Wouldn't see big rock then. He would see the Kuniya living right inside there as from the beginning. He might throw his camera away then." [Tony Tjamiwa]
rapita rabbit
mala rufous hare-wallaby
malu red kangaroo
kalaya emu
kipara bush turkey
ngintaka perentie
ngiyari thorny devil
lungkata blue-tongued lizard
kuniya woma python
kiilykiilykari budgerigars
nyii nyii zebra finches
minyma woman
walpa wind
inma dance, ceremony
palya! hello
piranpa European, whitefellow
minya tourist
tjunguringkula working together
Piranpa want knowledge to be shared widely. Under Anangu law it is important to make sure information is only shared with those entitled to it. Because of this we have to think deeply about giving information to Piranpa.
There is a photograph of a woman wearing a very beautiful tattoo, a snake whose head rests upon the uppermost slope of her left breast, whose sinuous body coils first across her collarbones and then down her right shoulder. The snake carries her own eggs, white spheres like jewels about her neck.
"The tourist comes here with his camera taking pictures all over. What has he got? Another photo to take home, keep part of Uluru. He should get another lens - see straight inside. Wouldn't see big rock then. He would see the Kuniya living right inside there as from the beginning. He might throw his camera away then." [Tony Tjamiwa]
rapita rabbit
mala rufous hare-wallaby
malu red kangaroo
kalaya emu
kipara bush turkey
ngintaka perentie
ngiyari thorny devil
lungkata blue-tongued lizard
kuniya woma python
kiilykiilykari budgerigars
nyii nyii zebra finches
minyma woman
walpa wind
inma dance, ceremony
palya! hello
piranpa European, whitefellow
minya tourist
tjunguringkula working together
Piranpa want knowledge to be shared widely. Under Anangu law it is important to make sure information is only shared with those entitled to it. Because of this we have to think deeply about giving information to Piranpa.
There is a photograph of a woman wearing a very beautiful tattoo, a snake whose head rests upon the uppermost slope of her left breast, whose sinuous body coils first across her collarbones and then down her right shoulder. The snake carries her own eggs, white spheres like jewels about her neck.