OR: #050505;">Budgerigar/Puluwanti à Yinapaka

OR: #050505;">Teddy MORrison Jupurrurla, Lajamanu, 1995

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OR: #050505;">translated from Warlpiri with Barbara Gibson Nakamarra (1995) and edited fOR the CD-ROM Dream trackers (UNESCO, 2000) by Barbara Glowczewski

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OR: #050505;">wilpirimawulumanu palanjiri

OR: #050505;">that's the hollow log, that's Puluwanti kirlangu (belong to).

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OR: #050505;">SONG 1

OR: #050505;">kuwajajala puluwantirla

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OR: #050505;">Big mob kids in that Nungarrayi home, ngurra kuwajaja, home, big hollow log, that's his (her) place, he (she) bin call himself (herself). He bin sit in there all the time, that's his house, that's his home, puluwanti kirlangu (belongs to Owl). 

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OR: #050505;">Nyampu (this one cycle) nobody run him, only me I can run him. Two brothers, yalpurru (co-initiates), Kenny Walker other one, sick now. In any place they bin learnim everybody Jungarrayi that’s his mother.

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OR: #050505;">SONG 2

OR: #050505;">Puluwanti (song cycle), I run him my mother Yinapaka

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OR: #050505;">kurdumilya milya minganminganypala

OR: #050505;">he bin makim ngipirri (eggs), watiyarla, hollow logrla (on the log)

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OR: #050505;">minganminganypala ngarna milya milya

OR: #050505;">that he bin makim kurdu now, alright nyanungu

OR: #050505;">(the egg became a child, they saw it)

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OR: #050505;">jangarambiri ya-puluwanti ya-pulurkura 

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OR: #050505;">SONG 3

OR: #050505;">that old man one he bin tellim he bin start dancing

OR: #050505;">he bin learn him (taught) all young fellow

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OR: #050505;">jabila jabila lamanlamanparna wiriri wiriri

OR: #050505;">(jabila jabila, new kids, maralya maralya fOR owl when they sit; and wiri wiri, bigger ones)

OR: #050505;">kids he bin hear him, purdanyangujana 

OR: #050505;">kurdukurdu yulami junga warujana nyangu

OR: #050505;">(they heard the children crying. True they saw them)

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OR: #050505;">SONG 4

OR: #050505;">rapinpa laru yukupulayi

OR: #050505;">alright they sit down, kurdu kurdu, the children, (in the) house, he bin learn him kirdanyanu (their father taught them. (The Bird people) puluwanti (owl), ngatijirri (budgerigar) where they sit down longa tree, that’s it, that’s from Dreamtime.

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