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

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

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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

(46.3)[3]
'Iłk'idáͅ, gojáde gondáa ká'ánágóndlaaná'a.
Jindín
'Íyaͅaͅ, dooha'yákaadahgoos'áͅdago 'ánágódlá.
'Áíbaͅaͅ 'ánłdishndí.

Long ago, it seems you restored someone's legs and eyes for them.
This has been said.
In the same way, make him free again from disease.
That is why I am speaking to you.

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(46.3) Linguistic Notes

dooha'yákaadahgoos'áͅdago 'free from disease'. doo-...-da negative; ha'yá 'something'; kaa 'disease'; dah- 'on, upon'; goos'áͅ 'a round object lies' [si- perf. neut. intr. with place subject]. Literally: 'that no kind of disease lie upon him'.

University of Virginia Library

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