Back in the dreamtime, two Jangala men ‘sang down the rain’ and the skies responded with an enormous storm. The storm rapidly travelled over the land, bellowing thunder and striking the earth with lightning, and the land was soon running with water.

A bit like the movie ‘The Perfect Storm’, this weather pattern joined with another one approaching from the West, from Wapurtali, and became even more formidable.

A Kirrkarlanji (brown falcon) caught the storm and carried it further to the west, dropping it at a place called Purlungyana, there creating a huge body of water which later became a giant soakage.

The falcon (perhaps tiring after its efforts) then dug up the Rainbow Serpent, a giant Warnayarra (snake), which helped in carrying water to create Jillyiumpa, another large lake.