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In Aborigine mythology, the Wati-kutjara are the lizard men (totem: iguana) who originally came from a mountain in the Dream time. They created sacred talismans (called tjurunga) and gave them to the people. They also created trees and plants, and river]s, mountains, valleys and other geographic features. They castrated the man in the moon, Kidil, because he tried to rape the first woman, who then turned into the Pleiades.