The Aborigines believe that giant semi-human creatures created at the beginning of the world were responsible
for all the creeks, hills, gorges and mountain ranges in Australia. In the distant past, a Wild Turkey Man persuaded the Aborigines to initiate one of the young men of the tribe at the place now known as Wilpena Pound. 
The news of such an important event spread over the countryside and finally reached the ears of a gruff old Kingfisher Man called Yulu Yuluru who lived in the desert country west of what is now the Leigh Creek coalfield.  For a while the Kingfisher Man was not interested in the doings at Wilpena Pound, but when he heard that the Wild Turkey Man was to be leader he decided to attend the ceremony, hunt the Wild Turkey Man away and initiate the boy in his own way. At Leigh Creek he lit huge fires to announce his coming.  These were so large and burnt up so many trees that the charcoal remaining behind formed the present coal deposit at Leigh Creek and at other places along the ranges.  They called it Yulu's Charcoal long before the coming of white man into their country.

 When the Kingfisher Man was passing through Brachina Gorge on his way to the ceremony, he saw two large snakes traveling in the same direction.  These so scared him he crept behind some low hills so that he could not be seen.  These manoeuvres so delayed Yulu that by the time he reached Wilpena Pound the ceremony was well under way and the Wild Turkey Man was just about to initiate the boy by burning him with a fire-stick.  Yulu rushed in, knocked the fire stick from the hand of the Wild Turkey Man and carried out the ceremony in a much kindlier manner.

The action pleased the assembled people, but unfortunately just as the ceremony was at its height the two snakes that Yulu had seen in Brachina Gorge burst in upon the scene and consumed all but the initiate, the Wild Turkey Man and the Kingfisher Man.  The two later fled south quarrelling loudly, while the youth escaped to the north, only to be transformed into a stony hill near the Wirrealpa Station.

After the great snakes had had their meal of human flesh, they stretched themselves out, one along the northern and one along the southern side of the ceremonial ground with heads almost touching.  They then willed themselves to death and their bodies were changed into the steep precipitous cliffs that now form the outer walls of Wilpena Pound.  The space between the two heads is the gorge through which the water empties into the open plain and is the only entrance into the beautiful pound.