Editing Wawalag (section)

===The storyline===
It is said that the sisters were travelling from the south of Arnhem Land to the [[Arafura Sea]], walking only through territory of Dua moiety.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":2" /> They gathered plants and animals along the way to prepare and eat later.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":4" /> They stop to rest and set camp near the Mirrirmina waterhole where the elder sister gives birth.<ref name=":3" /> While the younger sister prepared a fire to cook the food they had gathered, the elder sister takes the baby near the water to bathe him.<ref name=":5" /> Some of the residual afterbirth blood goes in the waterhole where [[Rainbow Serpent|Yurlunggur]], the rainbow serpent, resides and attracts its attention.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":2" />&nbsp;The food the younger sister was preparing comes back to life and crawls away from the fire and into the waterhole.<ref name=":5" /><ref>Dussart, F, Charlesworth, M, & Morphy, H 2016, ''Aboriginal Religions in Australia : An Anthology of Recent Writings'' , 1st ed., Taylor and Francis, London, {{doi|10.4324/9781315263519}}</ref>&nbsp;The serpent removes a rock that was lying at the bottom of the well and throws it onto the land, the well starts filling up with more water and the land begins to flood.<ref name=":3" /> A dark cloud forms on top of where the sisters had set camp and a thunderstorm begins.<ref name=":0" /> Unaware that it was the snake causing the [[thunderstorm]] and the [[flood]]ing, they build a [[hut]] to protect themselves.<ref name=":4">{{Citation|last=Berndt|first=Catherine H.|title=Monsoon and Honey Wind|date=1970-12-31|work=Échanges et communications|pages=1306–1326|publisher=De Gruyter|doi=10.1515/9783111698281-034|isbn=978-3-11-169828-1|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{cite web|title=Dust Echoes: The Wagalak Sisters: A Study Guide|url=https://education.abc.net.au/res/pdf/DustEchoes-TheWagalak-StudyGuide.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214051741/https://education.abc.net.au/res/pdf/DustEchoes-TheWagalak-StudyGuide.pdf |archive-date=2020-02-14 |url-status=live| last=Lewis| first=Robert| date=2007| website=ABC Education|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ATOM|others=From ''Screen Education'' magazine}} A study guide to accompany {{cite web|title=[Dust Echoes] Chapter 10: The Wagalak sisters|url=https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/digibook/2570774/dust-echoes|date=16 May 2017|website=ABC Education|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|format=video}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

When the sisters see Yurlunggur crawl out of its waterhole, they start singing the sacred songs, which are now part of the Djungguan, Ulmark, and Gunabibi ceremonies, in an attempt to keep the snake away.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> They continue to sing and dance, taking turns until the storm appears to ease, exhausted the sister seek refuge in the hut where they fall asleep.<ref name=":5" /> The serpent enters the hut and swallows both sisters and the baby, then it rises up to the sky and proceeds to finish singing the songs the sister were singing.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Wawalag |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wawalag|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2020-05-31}}</ref>

After swallowing the sisters and the baby, Yurlunggur and other totemic snakes gather together to tell one another what they had eaten.<ref name=":1" /> The snakes realise that they were not speaking the same dialect but despite this they could still communicate using the sacred songs. At first, Yulunggur tries to hide that he/she had eaten the sisters and their baby but he/she, feeling unwell, admits the truth and regurgitates them.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":2" /> The serpent swallows and regurgitates them again, and the third time he/she swallows them and takes them back to Wawilak country where he spits out the two sisters which then turn to stone<ref name=":3" />