Budgerigar/Puluwanti à Yinapaka

Teddy Morrison Jupurrurla, Lajamanu, 1995

translated from Warlpiri with Barbara Gibson Nakamarra (1995) and edited for the CD-ROM Dream trackers (UNESCO, 2000) by Barbara Glowczewski

wilpirimawulumanu palanjiri

that's the hollow log, that's Puluwanti kirlangu (belong to).

SONG 1

kuwajajala puluwantirla

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). 

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.

SONG 2

Puluwanti (song cycle), I run him my mother Yinapaka

kurdumilya milya minganminganypala

he bin makim ngipirri (eggs), watiyarla, hollow logrla (on the log)

minganminganypala ngarna milya milya

that he bin makim kurdu now, alright nyanungu

(the egg became a child, they saw it)

jangarambiri ya-puluwanti ya-pulurkura 

SONG 3

that old man one he bin tellim he bin start dancing

he bin learn him (taught) all young fellow

jabila jabila lamanlamanparna wiriri wiriri

(jabila jabila, new kids, maralya maralya for owl when they sit; and wiri wiri, bigger ones)

kids he bin hear him, purdanyangujana 

kurdukurdu yulami junga warujana nyangu

(they heard the children crying. True they saw them)

SONG 4

rapinpa laru yukupulayi

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.