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The Woman Who Had Horse Power, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

35. The Woman Who Had Horse Power as told by Duncan Belacho

35.1.

A woman had power by means of horse

35.2.

A young man was breaking horses.

35.3.

Then his father asked this woman who was holy by means of horse for help.

35.4.

Then this woman:

35.5.

Then this one who was sick lay there all alone.

35.6.

Then they turned the horse loose.

35.7.

Then the horse who was holy walked around him.

35.8.

Then [the man] arose, having been cured by this woman.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then the horse who was holy walked around him.

(35.7)[7]
'Ákoo Łíní dighiͅń gonáya.
'Ákoo ha'ii'áhé 'áshíͅ goch'iͅiͅnńyá.
'Áshíͅ nandi'áshíͅ, 'áshíͅ shá'ii'aashíͅ, goch'iͅiͅnńyá.
'Áshíͅ, náhakosí biyaashíͅ goch'iͅiͅnńyá.
'Ákoo 'ándee goch'áͅ'oołgho.

Then the horse who was holy walked around him.
Then he faced him from the east.
And then from the south, and then from the west, he faced him.
And then he faced him from the north.
Then, now he went away from him.

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(35.7) Linguistic Notes

goch'iͅiͅnńyá 'he faced him'. Literally; 'he stopped moving before [or toward] him'.

University of Virginia Library

Then the horse who was holy walked around him.