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A Visit to the Mountain Spirits, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

22. A Visit to the Mountain Spirits as told by Duncan Belacho

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then they went back with him to the mountains.

(22.6)[6]
'Ákoo gołnádeeska dziłá.
Tsénáńt'ií bitł'áh, daanádéńtan ghahá'áílaa.
Goł'áhoka díͅíͅn daanádéńtaͅ'.
Nágo kágót'ézhiͅ ch'éńka.
Nndé łáͅ.
Dádííndéí k'ehát'é.

Then they went back with him to the mountains.
Under a rock wall, a door had been open.
They went in with him [through] four doors.
Then they came out into [country] like this.
There were many people.
They were just like these people.

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(22.6) Linguistic Notes

1. daanádéńtan 'door, gate-way' [no analysis].

2. kágót'ézhiͅ 'to a place like this'. ká-ni-...- t'é 'to be that' [imp. neat. intr.] with a place subject. ká- is a demonstrative prefix.

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Then they went back with him to the mountains.