Formula of the Acorn Feast
[anonymous]
[undated]
[Hoopa Valley, California]
Transcribed by Pliny Earle Goddard
Source: Hupa Texts (UCPAAE vol. 1, no. 2), p. 233
- 'unłung-xwe:-ding
- Everywhere
- ninis'a:n
- world
- me:q'
- over
- tilchwin-ne'in
- used to grow
- digyung
- here
- na:no:diya'
- let it come back.
Whatever has grown any where in the world in time past let it come back here.
- do:-ła:n
- Little
- ch'iwiyung'il-heh
- even if he eat
- ting-ye:
- as if
- ła:n
- much
- ch'iwingyun'-silin'-te:
- he eats it seems.
If one eats but little he shall feel as if he had eaten much.
- 'unłung-xwe:-xw 'unt'e:
- Every kind
- digyung
- here
- na:no:diya'
- let it come
- hay
- that
- ninis'a:n
- the world
- me:q'
- on
- tilchwin-ne'in
- used to grow.
Let every kind come back here which used to grow in the world.