209. TWELFTH SONG OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP._The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468

1. NayunÃ¡ni tcÃ¨nia,

2. KaÃ§ biÃ§Ã¨Ã¯ltsos tcÃ¨nia,

3. BiqolÃ§Ã¨go, tcÃ¨nia.

4. NayunÃ¡ni tcÃ¨nia,

5. KaÃ§ biÃ§Ã¨nackÃ²ji tcÃ¨nia,

6. BiqolÃ§Ã¨go, tcÃ¨nia.

210. _Translation._--1, 4. NayunÃ¡ni, again on the other side, i.e.,

across two valleys. 2. BiÃ§Ã¨, his horns; iltsos, slender; biÃ§Ã¨Ã¯ltsos,

slender horns, i.e., the deer, by metonomy. 3, 6. BiqolÃ§Ã¨go, it is

becoming to him. 5. BiÃ§Ã¨, his horns; nackÃ²j, turgid, filled out,

stuffed; biÃ§Ã¨nackÃ²ji, turgid horns--metonymically, the mountain sheep,

_Ovis montana_. The refrain, tcÃ¨nia, he appears, he comes in sight.

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