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46. A Prayer Addressed to the Mountain Spirits, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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46. A Prayer Addressed to the Mountain Spirits as told by David Fatty

46.1.

Mountain Spirit, leader of the Mountain Spirits, your body is holy.

46.2.

He wants to get up with all of his body.

46.3.

Long ago, it seems you restored someone's legs and eyes for them.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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46. A Prayer Addressed to the Mountain Spirits, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938