The Lungkaṯa story | Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park

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 Lungkaṯa Tjukurpa story

As you move around Uluṟu, you’re walking through a landscape formed and shaped by the ancestral beings that still exist in the land today.

In their travels, they left marks (known as Tjukuritja – physical evidence of the ancestors activities) in the land and made laws for us to keep and live by. One such ancestral being is Lungkaṯa, the blue-tongued lizard man.

High on the western face of Uluṟu, near what is now the Cultural Centre, you can see where Wati Lungkaṯa once visited— and where the land remembers what took place.

Footprints, fire marks, and shapes in the stone tell of events long past. This is a place to pause, look closely, and reflect on the deep stories written into this ancient Country.

Discover more when you visit

Learn 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 Lungkaṯa walk and discover the full Tjukurpa story held in this ancient Aṉangu Country.