SONGS OF SPIRITS
1. Walokin tsawi, Lightning’s Song.
Mínom tóror wéril chirchákum sáia
Dúne wérem winwar dún bohémum.
I bear the sucker-torch to the western tree-ridge.
Look at me first born (and) greatest.
2. Olelben tsawi, the Song of Olelbis.
Olél bohéma ni tsulúli káhum síka ni.
I am great above. I tan the black cloud (there).
3. Song of Hau (red fox).
“On the stone ridge east I go.
On the white road I, Hau, crouching go.
I, Hau, whistle on the road of stars.”
4. Song of Waida Werris (the Polar Star).
“The circuit of earth which you see,
The scattering of stars in the sky which you see,
All that is the place for my hair.”[5]
[5] Hair in Indian mythology, as in other mythologies, is the equivalent of rays of light when connected with the sun and with planet luminaries.