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The Kuniya & Liru stories

Mutitjulu Waterhole| site of the battle between Kuniya and Liru. [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mutitjulu_Waterhole.jpg): Coen Hird / [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
Muṯitjulu Waterhole, site of the battle between Kuniya and Liru. Photo: Coen Hird / CC BY-SA 4.0

Please do not replicate or re-tell Tjukurpa stories. Parks Australia can not give permission for the use of Aṉangu Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), which includes, but is not limited to the use of names and re-telling of cultural stories (Tjukurpa) in any part.

The Kuniya & Liru Tjukurpa stories

As you walk the path to Muṯitjulu Waterhole, you move through a landscape surrounded by the continued presence of powerful ancestral beings. 

Here the paths of Wati and Minyma Kuniya, the woma pythons, and Liru, the venomous snake, once crossed — leaving marks in the stone and shaping this land forever.

This is not just a place to walk, but a place to pause, look closely, listen, see and feel. The land holds these stories, for those who come with open eyes, to learn the Tjukurpa and the responsibility that comes with that knowledge.

Discover more when you visit

Learn more about the story when you visit Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. This is the right place to learn about these stories, because they belong to this place. They happened here, and their presence remains. 

You can read the story in detail along the Kuniya walk to Muṯitjulu Waterhole and discover the Tjukurpa stories held in this ancient Aṉangu Country.