Oh! Aged One, _eçka_, Oh! thou recumbent Rock, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, To thee I shall pray, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, Oh! Aged One, _eçka_, The great water that lies impossible to traverse, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, In the midst of the waters thou came and sat, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, Thou, of whom one may think, whence camest thou? _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, From midst the waters camest thou, and sat, _eçka_. It is said that thou sittest crying: “Iⁿ! Iⁿ! _eçka_, Though I shall carry these my little ones, _eçka_, Though I shall sit and listen to their words, _eçka_, Because,” they say, you have said, _eçka_, “If one shall go astray in his speech, although here lies one on whom one’s footsteps may seem impossible to stumble, _eçka_, Upon this, the earth, very suddenly he shall stumble,” they say you have said, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, The impurities, _eçka_, Shall not enter within, _eçka_, Shall drift, like filth, as thou sittest, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_ Oh! Aged One, _eçka_, “If one of mine prays to me properly,” _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, “I shall be with him, _eçka_, Further along he shall go,” _eçka_. Aged One, _eçka_, “The fourth hill, _eçka_, The third, the fourth, _eçka_, Even in going they shall appear thereon,” they say you have said, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, Oh! Aged One, _eçka_, Thou sittest as though longing for something, _eçka_, Thou sittest like one with wrinkled loins, _eçka_, Thou sittest like one with furrowed brow, _eçka_, Thou sittest like one with flabby arms, _eçka_, “The little ones shall be as I am, whoever shall pray to me properly,” _eçka_, Oh! Aged One, _eçka_, Oh! Thou Pole of the Tent, _eçka_, Along the banks of the streams, _eçka_, With head drooping over, there thou sittest, _eçka_, Thy topmost branches, _eçka_, Dipping again and again, verily, into the water, _eçka_, Thou Pole of the Tent, _eçka_, “One of these little ones, _eçka_, I shall sit upon one, _eçka_, The impurities, eçka, All I shall wash away from them, _eçka_, To the end, without one obstacle, they shall appear thereon,” they say you have said, _eçka_, Aged One, _eçka_, It is said that you have commanded us to say to you, “Our Father, _eçka_, Thou Water, _eçka_, Oh! Along the bends of the stream where the waters strike, and where the waters eddy, among the water-mosses, let all the impurities that gall be drifted, _eçka_, Not entering within,” _eçka_. Aged One, _eçka_, “Whosoever touches me with face or lips, _eçka_, All the impurities, _eçka_, I shall cause to be cleansed,” it is said, you have said, _eçka_. “The four apertures of the body, _eçka_, And all within the body I shall purify,” it is said, you have said, _eçka_.