APPENDIX B 

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Zodjo mignienti : the man and the woman are joined | Kodjo djeugnienti : 

 a numerous family comes | sudjou pougnienti : the whole family | Kudjou 

 lig/iienti : to a dog which goes into the mountain with its female | pondjoun 

 deniati : the village next is made. 



Tch'eton a n'etoe : heaven gives food to the fowls | mounu djou kuku : heaven 

 gives food to the animals | d/ne djoujou U djouja papali : heaven gives food to 

 the horses | djoulou goulandjo : heaven has made nine stones | djoiise goundja 

 djo : heaven has made nine woods. 



Djoumba goukudjo : heaven has made nine roads | izouzaligueso — mhakapii 

 goiiloundu — takasoulane — bakasoujatno : the man is — the priest is — he strikes the 

 cymbals — and makes music | djoukalapati : heaven has made the hands of the 

 man white | Djouji konapatu : heaven has made the feet of the horses white. 



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Djoiiloungouloutu guenelekutu : nine stones fall from heaven | djousu kottn- 

 tadjou : nine trees, from heaven | djoupa goukundjou : heaven has made thread 

 (clothing) I djouloujoiiloitng djou : heaven has sent an evil stone (men were 

 disobedient to their chief) | ni perigni hendjala : of two villages, one man kills 

 the other. 



Ndaka leutnedja : two villages desire war | f/'o/ia aouaja : heaven sends the 

 wind and the scourges (rain, hail) [ Kutchuchutchendja : a man must not covet 

 another's pasture | chiuutudzetudja : a man must not covet another's harv'est. 



Tzejoiilaradii fengiiidzejoutu tsignidendjiichamari : one cannot count in ten 

 days the number of murderers and robbers | vioutsiilalimaiigue : funeral rites are 

 always to be observed (many are the dead) I Koutiiluchamapoii : the blood of 

 animals (sacrificed for the dead) ever flows | Zelemoudjutii zamaheii : the blood 

 is like the grass | dzoiizar mafiime ndzeumo madjii : if it were not for robbery and 

 murder the chiefs would have no subsistence. 



Key to Mosso Manuscript No. 

 (With Oral Text.) 



