The Killing of the Monsters, Mescalero Apache Text excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes |
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Then he lay in wait for her under [her perch].
(8.63)
'Ákoo bitł'áshíͅ bánch'iyeedzáná'a.
Koshíͅ nóͅóͅt'aná'a.
'Áshíͅ dahneesjíͅná'a.
Tséhałí beech'iisndiiná'a.
nDé doobáńgólaadaí bíká 'ách'ił'iͅiͅná'a.
'Ákoo bitł'áshíͅ bánch'iyeedzáná'a.
Koshíͅ nóͅóͅt'aná'a.
'Áshíͅ dahneesjíͅná'a.
Tséhałí beech'iisndiiná'a.
nDé doobáńgólaadaí bíká 'ách'ił'iͅiͅná'a.
Then he lay in wait for her under [her perch].
She came flying from over there.
Then she alighted.
He struck her with the stone club.
He did so because she did not permit people to live.
She came flying from over there.
Then she alighted.
He struck her with the stone club.
He did so because she did not permit people to live.
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