The Mountain Spirits and the Old Woman, Chiricahua Apache Text ::

The Mountain Spirits and the Old Woman, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

21. The Mountain Spirits and the Old Woman as told by Sam Kenoi

21.1.

Long ago, the people were travelling.

21.2.

Then it seems they spoke thus:

21.3.

Then it seems she wept.

21.4.

"I weep because they have abandoned me."

21.5.

Then they began to sing for her

21.6.

Then they spoke thus to her:

21.7.

Then she performed all of the ceremony they had done for her in exactly their way

21.8.

Then she performed all of that which had been given to her in exactly their way.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then they began to sing for her

(21.5)
'Ákoo káhadaa'dees'áͅná'a.
'Ákoo doojaa'íͅdaní, gondáaí 'iłch'áͅ'ádzaaná'a.
Dooshdiits'adaní náá'shdeests'aná'a.
Dooja'íͅdaní 'ija'íͅ náájiisdlíͅná'a.

Then they began to sing for her[1]
And she who had been blind, her eyes were made to open.
She who had been deaf began to hear again.
She who had been blind was made to see again.

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Ethnological Note 1
That is, they conducted a ceremony over her.

University of Virginia Library

Then they began to sing for her