Volume 1

Keresan texts / by Franz Boas.

  • Franz Boas
Date:
1928-
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Keresan texts / by Franz Boas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1'tc‘ts‘ity‘i, “ because you yourself after this have more magical power. ” — £C Indeed ? ” | said he. “ Go ahead, let me try. Go ahead, pile them up here. ” Then (i) she piled them up there many times. Then, when they were all piled up, then here | arrived I'tcctstity<i. Then he heaped them up there. He put them up | face down. Then with a song revived them Nau'tscit>,£i. | Then they came to life again. Storm-cloud-hair 1 and foam they vomited many times. (5) Therefore, the Americans and Mexicans have beards. Then | on all their heads came to be dry weeds. Thus they had already come to life. | ££ Enough, ” said they. Then, when they increase, they will go both ways. | Thus it was long ago when they came out of the place of emergence. But then also here in the middle from the north | they went to Laguna, but the white people went that way, northeast (10) and southeast and to the middle east, and here in the middle | at Laguna they will meet. There to the northwest went the k’a'tshna. There in the southwest will be We*'nimaTse their town. This way northeast and here to the middle east went the k£o'pict‘a'ya. In turn | that is their place. Therefore up here Laguna will be a good town. (15) Thus long ago at the place of emergence worked our motherand | ourfatherNau'tsht^i and I'tcctscity4i. All things | begotten on which the sun shines will live, | Indians and white people. That is the end. Ts\tscts‘i''ncr'kyo. (Told by koTs, 1921). (20) Long ago Ts’its£tsc‘f'na’T’o finished everything, | thoughts and the names of everything here on the earth, and | she also finished all the different languages. And so | our father, I'tcctscityCi, and our mother, Nau'ts£it>'£i, said | they would make names and they would make thoughts. (25) Thus they said. Thus they did and therefore everything | was finished and the names of everything and the differ¬ ent languages. (1) That made them all different. | Therefore each people talks differently here in the world | above; and therefore also the people talked differently | in the way Tshtscts£i,/na'/k<o and Co*'- tcSmina''k,o talked. Thus (5) it was and therefore have different names the people and | the domesticated animals. That is how they had different names. Therefore | the name of one is Tshts£ts£r'na''k’o and the name of the other is Co''tc£,jmina,/k’o. | Thus long ago our father and also our mother did for their | people on this earth, when 1. A small water animal.
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