In
Aborigine mythology, the
Wati-kutjara are the
lizard men (
totem:
iguana) who originally came from a
mountain in the
Dream time (they later taught
shamans how to use and communicate with the Dream time). They created sacred
talismans (called
tjurunga) and gave them to the people. They also created
trees and
plants, and
river]s, mountains,
valleys and other
geographic features. They
castrated the man in the moon,
Kidil, because he tried to
rape the first woman, who then turned into the
Pleiades.
