Wanapi Tjukurpa (Water or Rainbow Snake Dreaming)

The Wanampi ancestors, non-poisonous snakes, are important to the Anangu (people). The Wanapi are believed to bring rain and fill the waterholes. When it rains the Wanapi go hunting and exploring across the sand dunes. The legend goes that the Kuniya, the ancestor of the poisonous snakes, and her nephew transformed into Wanapi. They both live today at the Mutitjulu Waterhole at Uluru.