Renita Stanley
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This is a creation story from near Kanpi in the APY lands. Malila was a woman with one lame leg who often went hungry because she couldnt search and hunt for food. She would have to wait for her two daughters to bring her meat so she could eat. She travelled around like a dog (on all fours). She travelled from a long way, moving on all fours like a dog and she got a place near Kanpi when it was raining and her daughters helped her build a wiltja to get out of the rain. That wiltja is now an underground cave. One day her daughter brought meat and Malila saw that it had been cooked by a man and said to her daughters, 'I'm not eating this meat. Who ar these men? You must have husbands.' And she left her cave and went travelling further west where she came across soem men and got really angry with them. The men hit her and she fell and rolled down a hill and died (creating some mountains along the way)
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