The Limilngan, also known by the exonym Minitja and (based on a language dialect) Buneidja, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory.
[2] Their land lies on the lower Mary River area between Buluwurrk (Mt Bundey) and the coast around Gunanyjarr (Point Stuart).
Ronald and Catherine Berndt also placed them at the headwaters of the East Alligator River, a view queried by Tindale, who thought this located them beyond their eastern boundaries.
Imerombera pressed on, heavily pregnant, and on her journey, left spirit children at various points, together with yams, or Cyprus bulbs or bamboo, and chanted the language to be spoken in each area.
[7] In a specific Limilngan creation narrative n down from the words of one of the last speakers of the language, Felix Holmes, a journey from east to west is undertaken by a creator being, an old man called Wanyjuwanyjuwa, together with three mermaid sisters, perhaps his daughters: Baligijarr, Manabirrina, and Manbarra (youngest) through the country between Oenpelli and Darwin.Wanyjuwanyjuwa morphs into a malevolent shooting star who shuts up people in a cave to cook them at a site called Balkgamirni.