Kidili

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(specifically:

Mandjindja The Mandjindja or Mantjintjarra are an Aboriginal Australian people of Western Australia belonging to the Western Desert cultural bloc. Country According to Norman Tindale's estimate, the Mandjindja's territory extended over roughly , in the sa ...

), Kidili (or Kidilli) was an ancient moon-man who attempted to

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some of the first women on

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. The Wati-kutjara wounded him in battle,

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him with a

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, and he died of his wounds in a waterhole. The women he was trying to rape became the

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