Ngintaka

Ngiṉṯaka is a giant perentie lizard spirit being of Australian Aboriginal "Dreaming" Creation mythology.

The Ngiṉṯaka is one of several Creation Ancestor Beings of the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Western Desert Speaking Original people of Central Australia. It is associated with Angatja, an area along an important Tjukurpa or Dreaming Songline.

It is one of the two great reptiles of Uluru (Ayers Rock), Ngiṉṯaka and Milpali.

Ngiṉṯaka Songline is the major creation story in the Angatja area. Pitjantjatjara land is criss-crossed by the tracks of many Creation Ancestor Beings; the lizard, carpet python, snake, dingo, emu, tjala (honey ant) and maku (witchetty grub), among many others.

(pronounced nin-taka) Also spelled Ngintaku.

The story of Ngiṉṯaka is one of theft, vengeance and the uselessness of possessions. The saga is told with the "Inma Ngiṉṯaka", a dance of Ngiṉṯaka's journey of creation that includes a song whose stanzas follow his travels through the land, thus the 500 km trail is called a Songline.

The Ngiṉṯaka Man travelled from his home near the Western Australia border to the camp of another lizard tribe, near Oodnadatta, in search of a special grindstone.

Ngintaka Tjukurpa alatji - paluru ngura parari nyinangi tjiwa wiya, paluru tjiwa kurakuratjara nyinangi munu paluru mai wakati rungkaningi, munu rungkara uninypa uninymankula ngalkuningi.

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