The Aboriginal dreamtime are stories passed through every generation about the creation of Uluru and Kata Tjuta. Usually these stories incorporate mythical beings and creatures
Uluru:
According to Uluru dreamtime the world was a featureless place until the ancestors of the Anangu emerged and travelled across the land, creating the features like Uluru that we see today. Uluru represents the physical evidence of their time on the earth and is seen as one of their most dramatic and inspiring creations.
Ayers Rock tours incorporate the amazing rock paintings of the Anangu, which are seen as a record of the very period of dreamtime. The rock’s caves and cliffs contain countless remains of the Anangu people that tell the story of their ancestors. Certain rock outcroppings represent ancestral spirits, and the Anangu believe that by simply touching the rocks they can communicate with dreamtime and receive blessings from their ancestors.
Uluru remains sacred to a number of Aboriginal tribes in the region who still perform rituals in the caves and make new rock paintings. Each side of Uluru has a different creation story associated with it.
Kata Tjuta:
The Largest of the monolith is the home of Wanambi, the snake, with long teeth, a mane and a long beard, during the dry season he lives in a waterhole in the gorge where his breath forms a constant wind. Some of the domes are Pungalunga men, giants who fed on Aboriginies.
Finally only one Pungalunga remained and two hunters decided to kill him after he had eaten their wives. While one acted as a decoy, the other crept behind the Pungalunga and speared him in the back. The Pungulunga finally died in Kuniula Cave near Mulara Springs.
Other monoliths are the camps of the curlew men and mice women. A pillar on the eastern side is the kangaroo man Malu dying in the arms of his sister Mulumara, a lizard woman. Kata Tjuta means "place of many domes".
Uluru:
According to Uluru dreamtime the world was a featureless place until the ancestors of the Anangu emerged and travelled across the land, creating the features like Uluru that we see today. Uluru represents the physical evidence of their time on the earth and is seen as one of their most dramatic and inspiring creations.
Ayers Rock tours incorporate the amazing rock paintings of the Anangu, which are seen as a record of the very period of dreamtime. The rock’s caves and cliffs contain countless remains of the Anangu people that tell the story of their ancestors. Certain rock outcroppings represent ancestral spirits, and the Anangu believe that by simply touching the rocks they can communicate with dreamtime and receive blessings from their ancestors.
Uluru remains sacred to a number of Aboriginal tribes in the region who still perform rituals in the caves and make new rock paintings. Each side of Uluru has a different creation story associated with it.
Kata Tjuta:
The Largest of the monolith is the home of Wanambi, the snake, with long teeth, a mane and a long beard, during the dry season he lives in a waterhole in the gorge where his breath forms a constant wind. Some of the domes are Pungalunga men, giants who fed on Aboriginies.
Finally only one Pungalunga remained and two hunters decided to kill him after he had eaten their wives. While one acted as a decoy, the other crept behind the Pungalunga and speared him in the back. The Pungulunga finally died in Kuniula Cave near Mulara Springs.
Other monoliths are the camps of the curlew men and mice women. A pillar on the eastern side is the kangaroo man Malu dying in the arms of his sister Mulumara, a lizard woman. Kata Tjuta means "place of many domes".
