MATTHEWS. | SONGS OF SEQUENCE. 459 
215. Free translation. 
Thonah! Thonah! 
There is a voice below, 
The voice of the grasshopper. 
Among the plants, 
Again and again it sounds, 
Thonah! Thonah! 
Thonah! Thonah! 
There is a voice above, 
The voice of the thunder. 
Within the dark cloud, 
Again and again it sounds, 
Thonah! Thonah! 
216. TWELFTH SONG OF THE THUNDER. 
Aiena. 
Beqojonigo ani‘i [four times] odhe. 
1. Yugakod ani‘i; 6. Yiryakoé ani‘i; 
2. [¢ni‘djié ani‘; 7. Anilg¢ani ani‘i; 
3. Kos ¢ilhyil biyi‘dje, 8. Ndanise bie¢qako, 
4, Nabizae qolégo, | 9. Nabizae qolégo, 
5. Beqojonigo ani‘i, odhe. | 10. Beqojonigo ani‘i, o6hé. 
217. Translation.—Aiena, a meaningless beginning to many songs, which may be 
omitted. 1. Yigako, above. 2. I‘dni‘dji, pertaining to the thunder. 38. Kos, cloud; 
¢ilbyil, dark; biyi‘dje, within it. 4,9. Nabizag, his voice again, his voice repeated ; 
qolégo, sounds along, sounds moying. 5, 10. (Be, a prefix forming nouns of the cause 
or instrument; qojoni, local or terrestrial beauty ; go, a suffix to qualifying words) ; 
beqojonigo, productive of terrestrial beauty ; ani‘, a voice, a sound. 6. Yuyako, below. 
7. Anileani, grasshopper. & Ndnise, plants; bi¢qako, in among them. 
218. Free translation. 
The voice that beautifies the land! 
The voice below ; 
The voice of the grasshopper 
Among the plants 
Again and again it sounds, 
The voice that beautifies the land. 
The voice that beautifies the land! 
The voice above, 
The voice of the thunder 
Within the dark cloud 
Again and again it sounds, 
The voice that beautifies the land. 
219. FIRST SONG OF THE HOLY YOUNG MEN, OR YOUNG MEN GODS. 
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. Aie ’¢qa nagaié, 
. Kag Teiké-igini, 
. Dsil ¢golij biyagi, 
. Biyaji naile. 
1. Obe ’eqa nagaié, | 
2. Kag Tsilkeé-¢igini, | 
3. Dsil ¢ilhyil biyagi, 
4. Biyaji naile. 
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220. Translation.—1, 5. ’Cqa=bi¢qa, amid or among them; nagai, that, there. 
2. Kae, now; Tsilké-¢igini, Holy Young Man; Tciké-¢igini, Holy Young Woman. 
3, 7. Dsil, mountain; ¢ilbyil, black; ¢olij, blue; biyagi, at the foot of, at the base 
of. 4,8. Biyaji, his child; nailé, he lays down, he leaves. 
221. Free translation. 
There amid [the mountains], 
Now the Holy Young Man, 
At the foot of the black mountain, 
Lays down his child. 
There amid [the mountains], 
Now the Holy Young Woman, 
At the foot of the blue mountain, 
Lays down her child. 
222, The characters of Tsilke-¢igini and Tciké-¢igini are in the myth. 
The black mountain pertains to the male, the blue to the female. Al- 
though not told with the rest of the myth, it was subsequently related 
to the writer that Tsilke-¢igini said to the prophet, ‘‘ Whoever learns 
