The Seven Sisters (Minyipuru, Kungkarangkalpa) vs Wati Nyiru (Yurla)

Ancestral sisters whose flight across the Western and Central Deserts, pursued by a man who uses magic, is recorded in songlines of the Martu, Ngaanyatjarra, and Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara peoples, and who became the Pleiades.

The Seven Sisters travel across the Western and Central Deserts, through the Countries of the Martu (who call them Minyipuru), the Ngaanyatjarra, and the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (who call them Kungkarangkalpa), pursued by a man who desires one or all of them. Their journey forms songlines that cross hundreds of kilometres of what are now Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory, and the places where they camped, rested, and escaped are marked in the land.

The man who pursues the Seven Sisters across the deserts, using magic and changing his shape to trick them; called Wati Nyiru by Aṉangu and Yurla by the Martu.

In the Seven Sisters songlines shared publicly by Martu, Ngaanyatjarra, and Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara custodians, the sisters are pursued by a man, Yurla to the Martu and Wati Nyiru to Aṉangu. He is a sorcerer who uses magic and changes his shape to get close to them, taking the form of things in the landscape to trick them, and he never gives up.