Tjitji Tjuta Tjukurpa, this is the story of dancing children. It is a sprawling tale with many secret components. There is a scared song and dance ceremony attached to this tjurkupa and I often sing it as I travel and paint.

Nyangatja tjitji tjuta pakalpai tjitji wilu tjuta munu witilunpa tjuta munu tjitji langka tjuta muna tjitji kalaya tjuta tjitji liru tjuta tjitji ngapari tjuta tjitji uwankara tjunguringkupai munu inma kantalpai tjintira Watarrula tjangati.

This site is where all the children were dancing, if you look closely at the rocks around this place you can see the children moving down the rock faces. You’ll see the stone bush children, the emu children, the blue tongue lizard children and the snake children. Even the mamu tjitji (spirit children) move in a big group towards a nearby lakebed, a very special gathering place close to my homeland Watarru. All these children dance and sing together here.

Tjitji tjuta tjintjira inma pulka (The children have sacred dancing and singing on this claypan).

The white one is sweet, known as ngapari (edible lerp found on some gum leaves).

All the tjitji (children) collect the ngapari before Inma (sacred dancing and singing). The children have come from everywhere. They have travelled from Ngunmanga to the north and Uumga to the south. This is the Inma where they sing and dance the songs from the Tjukurpa. Inma kutjupa kutjupa (All the different songs).

This is located close up to Watarru, Ngayuku ngura (Bernard Tjalkuri’s home).

Tjitji Tjuta Tjukurpa, Tjukurpa pulka Inma wiru. This Tjukurpa is Tjitji Tjuta, all the children and the scared song and dance ceremony are great.

Nyangatja tjitji tjuta pakalpai tjitji wilu tjuta munu witilunpa tjuta munu tjitji langka tjuta muna tjitji kalaya tjuta tjitji liru tjuta tjitji ngapari tjuta tjitji uwankara tjunguringkupai munu inma kantalpai tjintira Watarrula tjangati. This is where all the children were dancing, there are the stone bush curlew children and emu children and blue tongue lizard children and the snake children. All the children are coming here for dancing at this dry lake bed just this side of Watarru.

Tjitji uwangkara, tjitji uwankara winki mamu tjitji. The whole lot, all the children even the spirit children come here to dance.