Yirritja

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Yolngu (Australia)

Meaning

a name associated with the Yirritja moiety among the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory — one of the two great complementary divisions into which all Yolngu people, clans, species, places, and sacred objects are classified; the Yirritja moiety is paired with the Dhuwa moiety, and together they represent the fundamental dual structure through which Yolngu understand the organisation of the universe; a person identified with Yirritja belongs to a network of clans, songs, designs, and sacred narratives that connect them to specific sea and land country, and to the ancestral beings who shaped that country during the creative epoch known as the Djang'kawu era

Gender

unisex