The story told by this painting has as main hero Yarrilpi, the ancestor snake, who traveled throughout Australia to find his family while he was disabled. He was carried along his journey by the  “kurdungurlu”, the one who is in charge of enforcing the laws taught in dreams. Every time his tail rolled up and touched the ground, swamps appeared.

     This very important dream explains how the multiple marshes on which the survival of desert peoples depend were created and above all gives spatial references to find them according to dunes, rocky headlands, etc.

    The concentric circles symbolize seen from the sky sacred sites evoked in the dream which are mostly water points.