Talk:Wp/nys/Maya waabiny/Waagarl

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Tom Bennell tells a story of the Waagarl or the Rainbow serpent west of Beverley..... Keeper of the stories, Tom Bennell a Whadjuck – Balardong man relates through his recorded oral history that there are two kinds of Waakal that he was aware of (1978); "The Waakal that’s a carpet snake and there is a dry carpet and a wet carpet snake. The old Waakal that lives in the water, they never let them touch them. Never let the children play with those. They reckon that is Nyungar koorlongka warra wirnitj warbaniny, the Waakal; you’re not to play with that carpet snake, that is bad. Boorda noonook mighty minditch and wirnitj. That means you might get sick and die. They (the old people) never let them (the kids) touch them [carpet snake] when they go out. Nitcha barlup Waakal marbukal nyininy, that means he is a harmless carpet snake. He lives in the bush throughout Nyungar boodjar. But the old water snakes they never let them touch em. They are two different sorts of carpet snake. If anybody ever sees them, the old bush carpet, he got white marks on him. But the real water snake oh, he is pretty, that carpet snake. … the Nyungar call him Waarkal kierp wirnitj. That means that carpet snake he belongs to the water. You mustn’t touch that snake; that’s no good. If you kill that carpet snake noonook barminyiny that Waakal ngulla kierp uart, that means our water dries up, none. That is their history stories or theories and very true too. They never let their children touch or mess around with those carpet snakes. If they come down here to Mindjarliny, the old Nyungar call that Minjarliny, noonook Minjarliny koorl nyininy, Nyungar wam, Waakal carrungupiny that means that carpet snake is going to get savage or if strange people go to that place Mindaring. Mulgariny Waarkal koorliny noonar mar yirawal billariny see, they reckon that carpet snake could make a storm come. Make it rain for them".