Chester Pepper: "Coyote and the Sun" (1949)
Primary participant: Chester Pepper (speaker)
Date: 1949
Project identifier: WB_LA78.1-016b
Publication details: Unpublished (recorded by William Bright, 1949)
Audio Source: http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17958
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Note: This text was recorded by William Bright without Karuk transcriptions or English free translations. Free translations were provided by Vina Smith (2013).
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pihnêefich uum vookúphaanik. vaa uxúti pakúusrah hôoy tu'aramsîiprivtih. mâam patusúpaaha maruk too trâa tuvásip. kumáam vúra hôoy upíip poo'aramsîip tuvásip. xás uxútih kíri vaa káan ni'uum, pakáan kúusrah hôoy u'aramsîiprivtih. táma ukfuukrâaheen. chavúra vaa káan úum máruk ukfúkuvraa. yée yáxa ithyáruk xás uvásip pakúusrah. kúkuum vúra u'áhoo. kúkuum vúra vaa káan u'uum. kúkuum ithyáruk xás tuváasip pakúusrah. payêem vúra hôoyva u'aramsîiprivtih pu'aapunmuti uxúti kumâam vúra upíip poo'aramsîiprivtih. víriva pihnêefich ukúphaanik. vaa vúra kich. |
Coyote did that. He's wondering where the sun comes from. When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill. He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there. He's thinking he wants to go there, where the sun comes from. Then he went up the hill. Then he had gotten there, up on top of the hill. There was the sun coming up from across (the next hill). Then he was walking again. Then he got there again. Then the sun rose across from him again. He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there. Coyote did that. That's all. |