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Likkaparta Song. The Song of Man Rising from the dirt. Warumungu.

6 Dec 2024 · 2 min

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The video presents a dialogue between two speakers about a Warumungu song titled “Ligada bara bara…”. Speaker A sings the song in the original language, then provides an English translation that frames the lyrics as a creation myth about the "first seed" and a mythical country called Pantaly, describing humanity emerging from a coconut‑shell‑like world and moving northward. The conversation then shifts to cultural beliefs about gender: Speaker A asserts that men and women were created by a divine maker for distinct purposes, linking women to the spiritual realm and men to travel on dirt. The speaker also references Christian (Jesus) and Hindu (Shri Vasudevan) figures, and expresses a critical stance toward contemporary gender‑transition practices, labeling them as wrong. Throughout, the tone oscillates between narrative storytelling, didactic explanation, and moral commentary.

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You say, "Ligada bara bara ligada barejina ligada bara bara." You go ligada bara bara barejina girna. That man get up and then he walk this nation. Never travel at speed.
So what does it mean in English? Can you translate it?
It mean man come up for dead. Adam. Adam. But we call him a jungle.
Jungle. Can you sing it again for me?
Ligada bara bara ligada bari jina ligada bara bara ligada bari jina. Kati mengirab. So we say that we become the first seed. Don't we talk about creation? Then we're going back to the first seed. The first seed is we have one more country called Pantaly. Country, you know, them hard sting coconut shell. And everybody come out of that shell, roots. And I speak about that roots and after it sets up. I always believe in my heart that we go north, longer remember creation. We don't travel no, but we can see it in the mind where we go.
Hmm. And it sits up there.
Hmm. That's what we remember. Who made us. Sometimes people are scared to say it. You're letting people do all them sex changes, you know? That's wrong. He made you a perfect man and you're doing that, destroying yourself.
Hmm.
Even women these days, he made you a woman for a reason. He didn't imagine a woman so he could be a man. No. He imagined a woman, women go all over the country. He imagined a connection to the spiritual world and men. Men, then we teach him how we travel on dirt. Cappuccino.
Cappuccino.
Yeah. We talk where Jesus walked, or Shri Vasudevan. Yeah.