Coyote and the Creation, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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"The voices of all sorts of birds that do not [now] exist will be heard singing and making a noise.
(5.73)[73]
"'Izháshee góńt'ishé haadí 'édiní bizaa daadiits'ago
hadaa'di'ágo daadiihndígo. Díík'ehí
ditsiͅnánt'íͅí, neest'áń 'igáał'aashé, 'ił'ání'át'égo
'iłtaas'ágo nndéne yeegoindá'át'íͅyéí. K'aats'osí'át'éí,
'íláͅhde'át'éí, tséhał'át'éí, tsébésh'át'éí, beełk'ai'át'éí,
dágóbí'iban'át'éí."
"The voices of all sorts of birds that do not [now] exist will be heard
singing and making a noise. All trees that grow, all sorts of
fruits, [and] all other things of this kind by means of which
people sustain life [will be created]. [So will] arrows, spears,
stone clubs, stone knives, metates, [and] tanned skins.
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