The cross-hatched grid that envelops this Larrakitj is the sacred design of the freshwater country of the Djapu clan at Waṉḏawuy, their ancestral homeland approximately 150 kilometres south of Yirrkala, inland from Blue Mud Bay. Waṉḏawuy is the spiritual home of the ancestral beings Mäna, the Shark, and Bol'ŋu, the Thunderman. The rains brought by Bol'ŋu sustain an intricate network of rivers and …