Editing Wati-kutjara (section)

==Narratives==
Wati kutjara is one of the most important [[Dreaming (story)|Dreamings]] around [[Balgo, Western Australia|Balgo]];<ref name="Poirier"/> in [[Gugadja|Kukatja]] narratives, the Wati kutjara are often likened to the wind, whose form they adopt when in danger.<ref name="Poirier"/> The men's first action is to sing about their names in order to establish their own identity.<ref name="Cowan">Cowan, J. (1994) ''Wirrimanu - Aboriginal Art from the Balgo Hills'', Gordon & Breach Arts International, p.32. {{ISBN|976-8097-75-2}}</ref> Then they decide to travel about, and eventually decide to head south-east in order to enlighten the people there who do not possess the [[rituals]] known to the [[Dreamtime|Dreaming]] heroes. As they travel, they sing of the animals, plants and geographic features that they encounter, naming them and calling them into being.<ref name="Cowan"/> Filled with magical power, these two unmarried brothers eventually travelled all over the [[Western Desert (Australia)|Western Desert]] destroying many dangerous evil spirits.<ref name="Myers">Myers, F.R. (1986) ''Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines'', Univ. California Press, p.239</ref> They also created [[tjurunga|sacred objects]].<ref name="Cowan"/>

The Wati kutjara feature in innumerable stories, whose details vary from region to region. In one recension, they are credited with [[castration|castrating]] the Man in the Moon by throwing a magical [[boomerang]], [[Kidili]], because he tried to [[rape]] the first woman.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Berndt|first=R. M.|date=1941|title=Tribal Migrations and Myths Centring on Ooldea, South Australia|jstor=40327930|journal=Oceania|volume=12|issue=1|pages=1–20|doi=10.1002/j.1834-4461.1941.tb00343.x }}</ref> In other versions, the Wati kutjara are the ones attempting to seduce the same group of women.<ref name="Poirier"/>