Wirnpa (Lightning Man) - 2007, 2009, 2014, 2016
2007 Milpirri - Kurdiji
Wirnpa (Lightning Man)
Dance Story
*the lighting makes the dancer's blue costume look green
First a cloud forms, a big Milpirri cloud. It grows and grows. Then lightning comes and the rain falls down. In this dance the Jangala is throwing lightning at the cloud, hitting it to make the rain come down, opening up the cloud. Ngapa-Partaluwarna - hitting him, it starts to rain. "I’m Ngapa, I have to start falling down".
From the Milpirri cloud the first rains starts running. The rain is the legs of the cloud - the wanarri - (thighs). During the dance this dancer is being yelled at by the kurdulangu to be more aggressive when using the boomerangs to hit the cloud.
From the Kurdiji ceremony
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)
2009 Milpirri - Jurntu
Wirnpa (Lightning Man)
Dance Story
First a cloud forms, a big Milpirri cloud. It grows and grows. Then lightning comes and the rain falls down. In this dance the Jangala is throwing lightning at the cloud, hitting it to make the rain come down, opening up the cloud. Ngapa-Partaluwarna - hitting him, it starts to rain. "I’m Ngapa, I have to start falling down".
From the Milpirri cloud the first rains starts running. The rain is the legs of the cloud - the wanarri - (thighs). During the dance this dancer is being yelled at by the kurdulangu to be more aggressive when using the boomerangs to hit the cloud.
From the Kurdiji ceremony
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)
2014 Milpirri - Jardiwanpa
Wirnpa (Lightning Man)
Dance Story
In this Wirnpa (Lightning) dance it sings about the clouds being everywhere, not just Milpirri clouds.
From the Kurdiji ceremony
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)
2016 Milpirri - Kurdiji
Wirnpa (Lightning Man)
Dance Story
*In a proper ceremony, this dance can only be danced by an initated man so it would be wrong to have the child dancing.
The Lightning man sings the rain creating a giant storm. He is the Milpirri cloud spitting out Lightning. The songs talks about hitting the cloud, from behind, and the lightning striking, maybe the ground, maybe a tree.
From the Kurdiji ceremony
Belonging to Skin Groups
Jangala, Jampijinpa, Nangala and Nampijinpa (Blue Group)