Faula de Lungkata (en anglès)

Aquesta faula la vam trobar mentre caminàvem al voltant de l'Uluru i us la transcrivim tal qual perquè practiqueu l'anglès. 

As Lungkata travelled towards Uluru has burned de country and began the practice of traditional fire management of the land.

At Uluru, Lungkata camped in a cave high of the western face, looking out over where the Cultural Centre is today.

Lungkata hunted around the southern base of the rock, where he came upon a wounded Kalaya, or emu, still dragging a spear from another hunt.

Lungkata knew that the wounded bird belonged to other hunters and it would be wrong for someone else to kill it and eat it, yet this was exactly what he did. He then began cutting it and eating it.

The two Panpanpalala, or Bellbird, hunters who had wounded the Kalaya where not far behind. Seeing the smoke from Lungkata's fire, they came up to him and asked if he had seen their bird.

Hiding the pieces of Kalaya behind him, Lungkata lied and told the two hunters that he had seen nothing.

Disappointed the Panpanpalala walked off, but when they located the tracks of the Kalaya they guessed what had happened.

Meanwhile, Lungkata gathered up what he could carry of the bird and raced westwards to his permanent camp, dropping pieces of meat behind him.You can still see the Kalaya thigh at Kalaya Tjunta, just north of Ikari.

The trail Lungkata left was easy to follow, and the two Panpanpalala caught up with him. They made a huge bonfire under the slow, far lizard as he struggled upwards to his camp.

Lungkata, the greedy and dishonest thief, choked on the smoke and was burnt by the flames. He rolled down, leaving strips on his burnt flesh stuck to the rocks he touched.

As his flesh came away, Lungkata got smaller and smaller, until eventually he became a small, solitari stone.

The smoke and ash from the fire stil stain the side of Uluru's steep slopes above Lungkata's body.

Lungkata reminds us what happens to the greedy and dishonest.