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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    they put them on the earth, (io) with their different names. The people and | also the different domesticated animals and the game. Thus | our father and our mother made us live up here. | They made us live on this wonderful world and therefore we are going to be happy | all the time, every day, for we shall be healthy (15) and also we are never | going to be sick and there will be all kinds of good | food and cultivated plants made for us everywhere. When the | new year comes they will be made and | we shall eat and our father (20) and our mother I'tcctscityCi and Nau'tshWi will work for us. On account of their magic power | they work for us, for all the people, domesticated animals, game | and all the birds and everything that lives here on the | earth. Therefore we shall be happy | and in the future they will always love us and every (25) day they will watch over us and take care of us. Thus did long ago | our father and our mother, so that | we may live nicely and with all they made | we live here on the earth. Thus they did. Nau'ts‘ity‘i. (Told by koVs, 1919). Long ago our mother Nau'tsfftW and our father | I'tcffsffWi said again, “ Enough, ” they said. “ These our | children do not obey us. Now | call them. “ — Then our mother Nau'tscity‘i called them. She spoke thus, (5) “ My children, ” said she, “ come here, ” said she. “Stand up here. | Then they came, Tcca*'kVina, Ma''s£s*wi and also Uyu*'ye*wi ] and Kauk’aKai'a and also Ckfo*'yo. Then our mother Nau'tshWi | spoke thus, “Enough, ” said she. “ Indeed, you did not obey me, ” | said Nau'ts‘ity‘i. “ Now go ahead. Here around the edge of the earth (10) you will run around the edge four times. | Thus I tell you, ” said Nau'tscity‘i. Then they went | four times and after a while they were tired. Then spoke thus our mother | Nau'ts‘ityCi, “ Enough, ” said she. “ Stand up here, ” said she. Then there | they stood up. Then, “ Enough, ” said she. From here on, ” said she, (15) “ you will be good. You will remember what I have ordered you to do, ” | said Nau'tscity‘i. “ All right, ” said they. Then again | Nau'- ts‘ity<i spoke thus, “ This Ck‘o’'yo and KaulffaKai'a I’ll drive away, said | their mother. “ For this reason, ” said mother Nau'tscity‘i, “ and | these others, Ma‘'sse'wi and his brother Uyir'ys'wi and Tcca“- k’wina (20) they will live in this world. Later on they will take care of it from here on, ” j said mother Nau'tscity‘i. Then she took a club. | Then she cut off the head of Ckco’'yo and Kauk’aKai'a, Then the
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