The ratapa, spirit-children awaiting incarnation, dwell inside the Erathipa boulder until a woman passes near and one slips into her body — the child's totemic identity forever fixed by this place of entry.
In Kimberley tradition, Ungud deposits spirit children into sacred waterholes during the night, where they await the Wanjina to send them into women for conception.
In Kimberley tradition, the Wanjina send spirit children from sacred sites and waterholes to enter women, making every human birth a gift from the ancestral cloud spirits.
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