Ararahih'urípih

Mamie Offield: "The Flood" (1957)

Primary participants: Mamie Offield (speaker), William Bright (researcher)
Date: 1957
Project identifier: WB_KL-56
Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 262-263, Text 56
Additional contributor: Melanie Redeye (annotator)

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[1] peethívthaaneen aas upiithránik.

Water collected on the earth.

[2] kári xás asiktâan kinipéer " chími shipnúkaam kiikvîiki."

And the women were told, "Weave a big storage basket."

[3] kári xás kunvik.

So they wove.

[4] xás vúra xára kunvikúur.

And they wove for a long time.

[5] vúra táayva kunvíkroon icháaniich.

They wove several strands at one time.

[6] kári xás pakunípthith kári xás axváha kuniyvúruk.

And when they finished weaving, they smeared it with pitch.

[7] púyava pá'aas upiithránik.

So the water collected.

[8] vaa káan sú' kunívyiihramnihanik, vaa uthivrúhuthunanik.

(The people) got inside (the basket) there, they floated around that way.

[9] vaa kumá'ii payêem áraar kun'áraarahitih.

That's why people are living now.

[10] víri vaa kinípeeranik " hûutva kóo ithívthaaneen uthaanêehaak, xáyfaat ik kúkuum vúra vaa kukupeepvíkaha."

(But) they were told, "However long the earth exists, you musn't weave that way (several strands at a time) again."

[11] yukun ithivthaaneentaaníha.

You see, (it will be) the end of the world.

[1]	peethívthaaneen aas upiithránik.
	Water collected on the earth.

[2]	kári xás asiktâan kinipéer " chími shipnúkaam kiikvîiki."
	And the women were told, "Weave a big storage basket."

[4]	xás vúra xára kunvikúur.
	And they wove for a long time.

[5]	vúra táayva kunvíkroon icháaniich.
	They wove several strands at one time.

[6]	kári xás pakunípthith kári xás axváha kuniyvúruk.
	And when they finished weaving, they smeared it with pitch.

[8]	vaa káan sú' kunívyiihramnihanik, vaa uthivrúhuthunanik.
	(The people) got inside (the basket) there, they floated around that way.

[9]	vaa kumá'ii payêem áraar kun'áraarahitih.
	That's why people are living now.

[10]	víri vaa kinípeeranik " hûutva kóo ithívthaaneen uthaanêehaak, xáyfaat ik kúkuum vúra vaa kukupeepvíkaha."
	(But) they were told, "However long the earth exists, you musn't weave that way (several strands at a time) again."

[11]	yukun ithivthaaneentaaníha.
	You see, (it will be) the end of the world.