Ghuch'idiyiq' łuq'u ggugguyni da łu.
All the tall tales are with that Raven also.
Ggugguyni Sukdu
Raven Story
Told by Mary Oskolkoff. Recorded by Jim Kari March 30, 1976, in Anchorage. Transcribed and translated by Jim Kari with Helen Dick, February 2005.
Łuq'u hghe duniyu ch'u łu łuq'u. «Haa henukda, yadi henuk didi? Łuq'a.»
He came inside to all of them, all of them. «Hey, what bum work, what work is this? Salmon.»
He came inside to all of them, all of them. «Hey, what bum work, what work is this? Salmon.»
Ch'adu hu yeh? Ndahduh łuq'a dit?
What is this for there? Where are the salmon?
What is this for there? Where are the salmon?
«Ighi a k'etnu ghu ch'ahninł'ut ch'u łuq'a ghin łuq'u sendilya yi egh gheshtnu shit'i» ni łu.
«At the stream flowing out there the salmon are brought down to shore, I am working on them,» he says.
«At the stream flowing out there the salmon are brought down to shore, I am working on them,» he says.
Idi'eł qeyeł tazdatl' da lagu. Ch'u łuq'a łu. Come from ben ch'anidatl'i shu.
And they went with him. And the salmon came out from the lake it seems.
And they went with him. And the salmon came out from the lake it seems.
Ay yet ch'u ndi qeył hnul'an ch'u q'uda kiq'u łu heghe nu'iju.
So they saw this, and now then he came to them again.
So they saw this, and now then he came to them again.
Ts'iłt'an k'isen ggwa yi miłni tnun q'u shu
One young girl was drinking water just then,
One young girl was drinking water just then,
k'ggats'a qeyłnihi yadi di tree ghini yi yeł talch'aq' łu ch'u
what they call roots of a tree, she swallowed that with the water then,
what they call roots of a tree, she swallowed that with the water then,
yet shughu ch'u bechutl'a qizdlan ch'u begguya qizdlan.
and there she got pregnant and she had a baby.
and there she got pregnant and she had a baby.
Ghuch'idi sukdu shi bay'idini ighi.
This is a tall tale, you know about it.
This is a tall tale, you know about it.
T'iłqit' ch'u ghu nuhqighunesh ch'u ts'ełt'an quht'ana ghunhdi łu
It got slippery and it (baby) is crawling around, and one man there,
It got slippery and it (baby) is crawling around, and one man there,
«Biqi ch'el'ih nih» qetnih ighi, daylight. Yadi iq' idi di? Nuqeyghunesh ch'u
«We are going for it,» they say, for the daylight. What could that be like? He is crawling around and
«We are going for it,» they say, for the daylight. What could that be like? He is crawling around and
«Biqi ch'ul'ay biqi ch'ulay,» łu yuqu delgguh.
«Let us have it! Let us have it!» he is cawing for it.
«Let us have it! Let us have it!» he is cawing for it.
Yi yinch'en ch'u belaq'a yedełggat. Qeyel'ahi ndat ka'a beqen ga q'u łu.
So across the way he gave it to him (the daylight). Some kind of big news, it seems (?).
So across the way he gave it to him (the daylight). Some kind of big news, it seems (?).
Gguguyni nusdlan. Hnihdnalnen łu.
It turned into raven, and he flew off, they say.
It turned into raven, and he flew off, they say.
Yeh ghu nutnulnił ch'u dich'ak'niłqet' ch'u shu jan qilan łu t'qijuq.
He is flying around, and he opened the door, and so it happened, there is daylight.
He is flying around, and he opened the door, and so it happened, there is daylight.
Ch'u tl'aq' qilan k'u ch'ijuq aa. Beghuch'idi sukdu sheł nuqulnek.
And so it also happened, that we have night, yeah. That is a tall tale that they told me.
And so it also happened, that we have night, yeah. That is a tall tale that they told me.
Yaqech' nuhqulnisht.
That is how they told it.
That is how they told it.