(The Wawilak sisters are powerful women, both of whom are pregnant through incestuous love-affairs. The story recounts how they are swallowed by the Rainbow Serpent, regurgitated and then swallowed again. Chris Knight argues that the Rainbow Snake is a metaphor for female solidarity founded in menstrual synchronicity. In that case, the story is a celebration of woman's role in binding society together. Other readings see the Snake as punitive).

She carried a baby in her arms. She carried a baby in her tummy. The two sisters walked. As they walked, the land took shape. Or; as they walked, the shapes took names. The Wawilak sisters named the shapes ; they named the land. She carried a baby in her arms. She carried a baby in her tummy.With their spears, they pointed at the shapes and named them. With the stones of their fathers, they pointed and named the land.

She carried her brother's baby in her arms. She carried her father's baby in her tummy. They walked. They must walk. That is what they had to do.

The land took shape. The land took the names that they bestowed - names and shapes were the land when they passed. They passed many lands.

He is a rainbow. She is a snake, a powerful serpent. She is, he is the Rainbow Snake. Beneath the water.. His sisters, her sisters, are coming to where the water is. Aaah - her belly begins to heave. Beside the water, they build fire and cook upon the fire the meat that they have slain with their spears. Her belly heaves.

First the child. After the child, blood. The blood flows. It flows. It flows into the water. Beneath the water he smells the blood. She scents the blood within the water. She is, he is aroused ; he rises and her head her body his body rises above the water and looks around. The fire burns. The fire burns but does not burn. The meat will not burn. The kangaroo and the wallaby, the lizard and the old man kangaroo rise from the fire and leap into the water. Leap into the blood. Woman's blood. Fire will not burn.

The blood, the water rises. Rises. The Rainbow rises ; the serpent raises its head. She sees the serpent, it's rainbow arching over her head. She sees the serpent. She and she dance. Ahh - but the blood. The dance is bloody, more blood, more blood. The blood, the scent of the blood, the one who bleeds after the birth, the other who bleeds because there has been no birth, the smell of the blood rises, and Rainbow bends, the rainbow bends. The Rainbow head bends towards she and she. The women bleed, the blood calls the rainbow and the Rainbow mouth opens wide.

The sisters sing and dance and their blood flows and flows and the rainbow head bends the rainbow mouth gapes and swallows and she and she are sucked into the rainbow into the Rainbow, into the serpent she and she. She is the Serpent. She is the Serpent. The Rainbow speaks and the land takes shape. The Rainbow roars, and the shapes take names the names she and she the Rainbow gives the names She and She the Rainbow name the shapes and the land takes shape.

We are, she says. We are, she says. We are says the Rainbow. The Serpent is. The Serpent raises its head, its head her head his head into the clouds and the thunder speaks the Rainbow names the names. The snakes , the serpents rise and name the names.

After the storm had passed, the land dried out. The Rainbow fell. It shattered upon the dry ground. She and she rolled out from its shards, from its entrails. They lay. Small pincers gripped their flesh, the ant-hill moved and investigated, gripped their flesh, and she and she felt the pincers, felt the pincers and awoke.

It will rain again. The rainbow will rise, the Serpent will swallow. The Serpent will vomit. We see the sisters, the two stones. The sisters are the stones. The stones.