41. Prayer When Building the Ceremonial Tipi, Chiricahua Apache Text ::

41. Prayer When Building the Ceremonial Tipi, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

41. Prayer When Building the Ceremonial Tipi as told by David Fatty

41.1.

When the earth had been created,

41.2.

The White Painted Woman, on the earth today, her mind has been created.

41.3.

[Of] the four that will move together,

41.4.

From the east, a road leads here.

41.5.

The White Painted Woman, on the earth, her mind has been created.

41.6.

White Painted Woman, do not push us toward all of that which is evil on the earth!

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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From the east, a road leads here.

(41.4)[4]
Ha'óó'áͅshíͅ, koyá 'á'ítin.
Sáͅgish tsiiba' dzaͅaͅee beekooghaͅ.
'Áídá'tinee, jígonaa'áí bitł'óle díͅíͅgoyá beech'é'ítin.
Ts'is'ahnaagháí! Bik'ehgózhóní.

From the east, a road leads here.
Here the tipi is made of old age staffs [and] gray hair.[5]
Right at the door, roads made of the rays of the sun go out to the four directions.
Long life! Its power is good.

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(41.4) Linguistic Notes

1. koyá 'á'ítin 'a road leads here'. koyá 'here'; 'á 'here'; 'á'ítin 'road', cf. 'áńítin.

2. sáͅgish 'old age staffs'. sáͅ 'old age'; gish 'stick, cane'.

3. tsiiba' 'gray hair'. tsii- 'head', -ba' 'gray', cf. łi-ni-...-bá 'to be gray' [imp. neut intr.].

4. beekooghaͅ 'the tipi is made of'. bee- 'by means of it'; kooghaͅ 'tipi, dwelling'. This construction occurs quite commonly in the songs and prayers.

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Ethnological Note 5
The substances of which the tipi is to be constructed--old age staffs and gray hair--refer to the purpose of the ceremony, to give Long life to the girl.

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From the east, a road leads here.