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The Gambling Game for Night and Day, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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7. The Gambling Game for Night and Day as told by Lawrence Mithlo

7.1.

Now, also, there was no day.

7.2.

That--these birds of the kind that fly [and] all the small [creatures] did not like [it that, it was always dark].

7.3.

7.4.

They talked about it.

7.5.

Then they began to play the moccasin game.

7.6.

Now then, that Wren wanted the day.

7.7.

Then the others, speaking thus again,

7.8.

And the others:

7.9.

And now the former:

7.10.

Someone who was very big

7.11.

Then, there at the borders of his back, there the day had come.

7.12.

Then, now, that person who was big was [still] there among them.

7.13.

Then Gray Lizard spoke thus to them:

7.14.

Then the Gray Lizard went in under his foot.

7.15.

And now [for] the Snake also.

7.16.

Now they attacked the Bear also.

7.17.

And that large grove of trees into which he went is called "A Grove of Trees Lies."

7.18.

This place where they played the moccasin game is today just like it was then.

7.19.

That [place] today is still just so; these things that they say happened occurred.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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The Gambling Game for Night and Day, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938