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de:di-qa:l sun

de:-nohq'it

jingkyo:wit-qa:l sun

ła:n-łilt'ik' The Pleiades, "Seven Sisters" (constellation)

łe:na:łtehł full moon

na:te:ch'it the waning moon (when its going from full to new)

no:xonyawh stop the eclipse!

tsing' star

wha sun, moon

xa:sina:wh it (sun, moon, star) rises, peeps over the ridge.

xitł'e'-wha moon

xoda:nyay it goes down to the foot of the hill, the sun sets, the sun has set

xołiqay the whiteness in the sky before daybreak

xutł'e'dung'-xa:sina:wh morning star

Dictionary Entry [entry ID #2782] (related entries)

de:-nohq'it • the sky; God, Heaven (metaphorically) [literally, here-above us] • compound noun • Semantic domain: sky

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text: Creation of animals, line 7 (full story)
he who was living in the sky