Maidu texts / by Roland B. Dixon.

  • Roland Burrage Dixon
Date:
1912
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Credit: Maidu texts / by Roland B. Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I. Creation Myth. — Part I. When this world was filled with water, Earth-Maker floated upon it, kept floating about. Nowhere in the world could he see even a tiny bit of earth. No persons of any kind flew about. He went about in this world, the world itself being invisible, transparent like the sky. H e was troubled. “I wonder how, I wonder where, I wonder in what place, in what country, we shall find a world!” he said. “You are a very strong man, to be thinking of this world,” said Coyote. “I am guessing in KoMoyapem kan uniiV koMo momim^ opiCmoni hin- Earth-Maker and this world water full-when tseto^yetsoiam. Hinksetoyewe^bisim homoiY kodobdimaat drifted about. Kept drifting about where world-in indeed nukkim kawimhiiaat tsemenksoia. Tsaiksainom maiMlim little earth indeed saw-not. Different kinds people hesPkimaat hesimkwaat kaPnoyemenksoia. Amonflkan what-of indeed what indeed flew-not about. Then and 5 uniY kYdom tsewiPsuktipem kYdom ybtsoYotsoia. Epin'- this world one caused not to world he went about. Above- be seen (?) ihkoyoMi koMo tsehe'hetsonopem yaEhuboktsoia. valley in world one that looks through, it felt, seemed like. is transparent AdoiYkan wasa' huboEnotsoia. “HesaMom aik^ hesY- So and bad he felt. “What I wonder what dom aike homoiY kodoPdi aike hesEpedi aike hesa'peh I wonder where world in 1 wonder what (place) 1 wonder what at kodoiMi koMoi tsehePukoahkas,” atsoi^am. “ Mi kaanflcano world in world we may see,” he said. “\ou you are lO teteC epkim maiklum amam^ iinih' koklo huhe'yedom.” — very strong man that this world thinking of. [4]
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