Wati-kutjara
In
Aboriginal mythology, the
Wati-kutjara are the
lizard men (
totem:
iguana) who originally came from a
mountain in the
Dream time (they later taught shamans how to use and communicate with the Dream time). They created sacred talismans (called tjurunga) and gave them to the people. They also created trees and
plants, and
rivers, mountains, valleys and other
geographic features. They
castrated the man in the moon, Kidil, because he tried to
rape the first woman, who then turned into the
Pleiades.
