Häthi′na He′sûna′nĭn.
Translation
My children, my children,
It is I who wear the morning star on my head.
It is I who wear the morning star on my head;
I show it to my children,
I show it to my children,
Says the father,
Says the father.
This beautiful song originated among the northern Arapaho, and is a favorite north and south. In it the messiah is supposed to be addressing his children. There is a rhythmic swing to the vocalic syllables that makes the tune particularly pleasing, and the imagery of thought expressed is poetry itself. The same idea occurs in European ballad and legend, and has a parallel in the angel of the evangelist, “clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon his head.”