Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"Now I have become very tired.
(5.63)[63]
"K'adi dáhiiiyá.
nDébik'ehyágo 'áshich'íͅlaa
'Íyaͅaͅda, shíí shits'ísí bizáͅáͅyégo 'ádishndá. Shijaaí, shíchíͅí, shindáaí, shik'áchoshí, shighooí. Shijádí
díͅíͅ'ígo, Shitseeí ditł'ooyégo, Naagoshndégo hishtsiłgo, Shikeeí
'iłaadaasijaago, 'áshíͅ shiganidó shílaaí
'iłch'iͅiͅ'áshlágo. Shóͅóͅdé yá'édiͅ.
K'adi
tsékeeshchíhé ma'ye 'eenádishdá shi'éłchiné shi'ishdzáńń.
Dáha'yá hoshááłá, gonshłíͅdeeda, díík'een gózhóͅgo
'ishxoshdaał. Dá'itsiͅná góńt'ishé shidánego 'áshíͅ dátóná
hishdláͅgo. Naagoshndédaał."
"Now I have become very tired. He has made me in the form of a
man. Therefore, I shall make my body small. [So will change]
my ears, my nose, my eyes, my body hair, [and] my teeth: My legs
will be four, My tail will be bushy, I shall howl and
bark, My feet will be bunched, and I shall close up my arms
and my hands. Coyote is no more.[13]
Now I will return as coyote the animal [to] my wife
[and] my children. Wherever I go, wherever I live, I will
sleep well everywhere. Only all varieties of meat will be my
food and I will drink only water. I will howl."
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