From childhood (traditionally, boyhood), each yamatunga starts out an apprentice to the last one, and learns the sacred ways for, along with the temple, the yamatunga's job is protecting the very creature made sacred their... the marsupilamis themselves! Along with a feathered headdress for statis, the yamatunga keeps feathers on his walking-stick as well, one for every reason the marsupilami matters enough to be worth protecting.