Talking To The Ancestors 1
Yidumduma walking into a sacred art site and talking in Wardaman language to the Ancestors who live in the rock art images . This is a shared site along the Victoria River between the Ngaliwurru and Wardaman. The Victoria River is a shared boundary of the two tribes. At the request of the Ngaliwurru elders the rock art images are not shown.
Directors Notes:
Bill calls out to the ancestors.
I am going to sit beside you
Later on I am going to sing for you
Warrangin song
I come here just today
You two are staying in the drawing in the rock
We are coming up to the rock
To make you feel happy
You are going to stay good in the belly
In Buddhist meditation practice this may be linked to..."cultivating samadhi power, which develops in the lower belly about two to three inches below the navel. We also call this joriki which means the power and energy of samadhi… In this process we develop a certain intuition and understanding of the nature of reality." Source: Big Mind
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Transcript
I get up now
I sing out to the old men
We are coming up top now
Over there now
You can wait for me sitting down
I am going to sit beside you
Later on I am going to sing for you
Warrangin song
I come here just today
You two are staying in the drawing in the rock
We are coming up to the rock
To make you feel happy
You are going to stay good in the belly
You will be happy
Make your belly feel happy
I am coming up to visit you now
This is it now
You two are staying in the drawing
Two old people
We are coming now
We are coming closer now
There are all these rocks here everywhere
This is it now
I am walking up with a walking stick
We are coming to sit down with you
There, those two are now
Two old men
Hello old man
We are going to sit down beside you
Later on I am going to tell a story to this mob
All the white men I brought up here
I am going to talk in language now
I am going to speak in the language of Ngaliwurru and Wardaman
There’s those two sitting down
There’s an old lady sitting in this drawing too
Yes, this a blue-tongue (lizard) lady
Lungurra , blue-tongue lizard.
