The Mountain Spirits and the Cripples, Chiricahua Apache Text ::

The Mountain Spirits and the Cripples, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

23. The Mountain Spirits and the Cripples as told by Duncan Belacho

23.1.

Long ago, [there was] a big boy [who] had no eyes.

23.2.

A Gray One came to them.

23.3.

Then the Mountain Spirits prayed.

23.4.

Then he had eyes.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Then he had eyes.

(23.4)[4]
Nágo gondáa gólíͅ.
Ła'ńdo, bijáde gólíͅ.
Kát'égo, gojáde gondáa ká'ánágoyaaná'a.
'Iłk'idáͅ, dziłá nndéí 'ágoł'íͅná'a.
Kát'égo, 'itanájít'áázhná'a.

Then he had eyes.
The other one also, he had legs.
In this way, his eyes [and] his legs were made again for them.
Long ago, the people in the mountains did so to them.
In this way, they returned to [their people].

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(23.4) Linguistic Notes

'itanájít'áázhná'a 'they returned to them'. 'ita 'among' plus 3a person perf. of ná- ni-...[ni- perf.]-d-'aash 'two go back, return' [act. intr.]

University of Virginia Library

Then he had eyes.