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Coyote and Owl, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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2. Coyote and Owl as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Owl stood before him.

(2.12)[12]
Nishjaaí goch'iͅiͅnińyáná'a.
Díͅíͅn, gokéshíͅgo, ndásá kéńghilná'a, ha'ii'áhí bich'iͅiͅyágo.
"K'adi."
gołdóͅóͅndiiná'a.
"K'éńghaał. Niłnzhóͅnáliͅ?"

Owl stood before him.
Four times, from behind him, he pushed him on toward the east[3].
"Now,"
he said to him,
"Look at it. Do you like it?"

 
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(2.12) Linguistic Notes

niłnzhóͅnáli 'do you like it?'. ni- 'you'; ł- 'with, to'; nzhóͅ 'it is good'; -náli interrog. encl. [?].

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Ethnological Note 3
The ceremonial procedure and motions described here are an accurate account of elements found in many curing ceremonies.
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