The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees: Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398Mooney, James
Religion
The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees: Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
Mooney, James
Cherokee Indians -- Religion; Cherokee language -- Texts; Indians of North America -- Medicine
Anisga´ya anewadi´sû[n] unihisa‘ti´yĭ. Tsu´nada´neilti´yĭ.
Dĭ´la-gwû degû´[n]wănatsegû´‘lawi´sdidegû´.
Ayâ´ise´ta-gwû u´danû. Tsunada´neilti´yĭ. Utse´tsti-gwû
degû´[n]wănatsegû´‘lawis´didegû´. Tsunada´neilti´yĭ.
Ka´ga-gwû degû´[n]wănatsegû´‘awisdidegû´.
Tsunada´neilti´yĭ. Da´l‘ka-gwû
degû´[n]wănatsegû´‘lawisdidegû´.
Kûlkwâ´gĭ igûlsta´lagĭ unihisa‘ti´yu.
Ige´ski-gwû nige´sû[n]na. Ayâ´ise´ta-gwû
u´danû degû´[n]wănatsûn‘ti-degû´. K’si-gwû
degû´[n]wănatsûn‘ti-degû´. A´yagâgû´ tsisga´ya
agine´ga û[n]gwane´‘lanû´hĭ + + Nû[n]dâgû´[n]yĭ
iti´tsa ditsidâ´ga. Agisa´‘tĭ nige´sû[n]na. Agwâduhi´yu.
Tsi-sa‘ka´nĭ agwă´tatĭ nige´sû[n]na. Kûltsâ´te une´ga
û[n]ni´tagâgû´ gûkwatsâ´nti-degû´. Agisă´‘tĭ
nige´sû[n]na. A´yû agwadantâ´gĭ aye‘li´yu gûlasi´ga
tsûda´ntâ, uktahû´[n]stĭ nige´sû[n]na. A´yû tsĭ´gĭ
tsûda´nta 0 0. Sgĕ!
_Translation._
CONCERNING LIVING HUMANITY (LOVE).
Kû! Listen! In Alahi´yĭ you repose, O Terrible Woman, O you have
drawn near to hearken. There in Elahiyĭ you are at rest, O White
Woman. No one is ever lonely when with you. You are most beautiful.
Instantly and at once you have rendered me a white man. No one is ever
lonely when with me. Now you have made the path white for me. It shall
never be dreary. Now you have put me into it. It shall never become
blue. You have brought down to me from above the white road. There in
mid-earth (mid-surface) you have placed me. I shall stand erect upon
the earth. No one is ever lonely when with me. I am very handsome. You
have put me into the white house. I shall be in it as it moves about
and no one with me shall ever be lonely. Verily, I shall never become
blue. Instantly you have caused it to be so with me.
And now there in Elahiyĭ you have rendered the woman blue. Now you
have made the path blue for her. Let her be completely veiled in
loneliness. Put her into the blue road. And now bring her down. Place
her standing upon the earth. Where her feet are now and wherever she
may go, let loneliness leave its mark upon her. Let her be marked out
for loneliness where she stands.
Ha! I belong to the (Wolf) ( + + ) clan, that one alone which was
allotted into for you. No one is ever lonely with me. I am handsome.
Let her put her soul the very center of my soul, never to turn away.
Grant that in the midst of men she shall never think of them. I belong
to the one clan alone which was allotted for you when the seven clans
were established.
Where (other) men live it is lonely. They are very loathsome. The
common polecat has made them so like himself that they are fit
only for his company. They have became mere refuse. They are very
loathsome. The common opossum has made them so like himself that they
are fit only to be with him. They are very loathsome. Even the crow
has made them so like himself that they are fit only for his company.
They are very loathsome. The miserable rain-crow has made them so like
himself that they are fit only to be with him.
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