|
"You know the seven
sisters, once they come up, they travel around that way (around the horizon).
We call them "artunyi". What you call the saucepan, that comes up a long
time after the sisters come up and they (the men forming the saucepan)
go straight over to the top of the sky. They reckon that somewhere in
the middle of the sky, there's a sacred area and the women had to go around
but the men go straight across, but they all meet up at the end and go
down the same side. When the seven sisters go around, old sleepy lizard
goes up higher into the hills to get
|
out
of the wet or rain, or whatever. The sisters go to sleep through the winter
and when they come up, the snakes comes down lower and lower and when they
come around about halfway in the sky, he's down the bottom of this hill
and that's where they get him. They reckon it gets warmer and warmer as
they come down. In the winter they only come up early in the morning."
Lynch Ryan, Port Augusta 1989 (Education Department of South Australia 1992:
120) |
