249. _Free translation._

The curtain of daybreak is hanging

The Daylight Boy (it is hanging),

From the land of the day it is hanging;

Before him, as it dawns, it is hanging;

Behind him, as it dawns, it is hanging.

Before him, in beauty, it is hanging;

Behind him, in beauty, it is hanging;

From his voice, in beauty, it is hanging.

The Daylight Girl (it is hanging),

From the land of yellow light, it is hanging, &c.

(substituting her for him and his).

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 · 第 41 / 59 题