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Flying Fox Back in the Creation time, Warrnyu the Flying Foxes once lived like men, in the cave at the place called Kurrki Warrnyu Yirri Djaringal. They lived in the cave for many years and then one day the Dog, Djanyarr, an ancestral being in the form of a man, came along and entered the cave. This is the story about the Dog. He was searching around for a place to live in. Long ago the Flying Fox lived in the cave called Wadatilmurr. From there the Flying Fox went to another cave called Gurngurmirrngu. The Dog came along and heard the sound of a Flying Fox screaming. The Dog went down to the cliff and he pushed the rock and the water came out at the Ganalbingu place called Gurrkawakarrmurr. The Dog went into the cave and came out on the other side of the cave. So he went into the sacred hole and frightened all the Flying Fox away. When he went into the hole he left his dilly bag in the tree and went out on the other side of the sacred cave and left the spear and the woomera. He sat there for a long time. At Kurrki Warrnyu Yirri Ngilaya Djaringal, the Flying Fox made himself into a young man… that’s what Aboriginal people do today. They make ceremonies and dancing to make the young boys into men. The songs are called Yirrarwu, Gulumu, Rruburra and Burryun. The initiation ceremonies happen today because the Warrnyu (Flying Fox) people performed them a long time ago before the Yolgnu people. It was the Warrnyu people who first cut the penis of the young to make them into men. It all happened at Kurrki Warrnyu Ngilaya Djaringal, this is how this place got its name. The Dog was speaking out of the rock and made three streams and the water went into the cave. Two of these streams are good drinking water. In the middle it is a sacred water. No-one drinks from the middle of the stream. Children, men, women, young boys or girls are not allowed to drink from the middle of the stream. If they drink the water from the middle of the stream they will get grey too early. Leaving behind the cave at Kurrki WarrnyuYirri Djaringal, the Dog travelled west across the Arafura Swamp and came to Djalkulmurr (Mount Delight). From there he travelled north and came to Dunganda (a hill situated a few kilometres east of Ramingining). There he met a female Dog, then they both headed north and came to a place called Garanydjirrmurr, where they spoke the Midjingi language. From Garanydjirrmurr they changed their direction and went west through Guliny’barra, Burgumara and onto the plains. When they reached the plains they smelled something cooking, way up in the north – at Wessel Islands. The aroma they smelt was so enticing that they decided to go there. Lungurrna, the north-east wind, was carrying the smell. One Dog went, it headed north again, but the other Dog decided not to go wiyh him and went back the opposite way. The first Dog that went to Malwanatharra (Sandy Point) went into the sea following its nose to wherever the smell was coming from. It is believed that this Dog still lives in the sea, where it went into the sea.
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