(1) Who were before all souls?
The skies were empty.
From them (emerged) Barabey [1].
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(2)Who (emerged) from Barabey later?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5
Blius[2] (emerged) from the womb of the goddess.
The body was filled with light.
The gazes of souls towards the skies.
(3) What deity (emerged) from the two of them?
Idasus[3] and, immediately afterwards, Gourey[4].----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10
Blius gave (them) the light.
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(4) What did they create next?
Afterwards, the clouds (created) Idasus
and immediately after, the stars (created) Gourey.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15
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(5) What animals (emerge) immediately from the clouds?
The small birds in the tres
and the birds of the air.
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(6) Which others (emerged) from the stars?
Those who live for the day
(and) those who live at night.
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(7) What animals (emerged) immediately from the skies?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------25
waters fell from the sky
(and), of these, those of the waters.
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(8) Which others (emerged) from the soils?
The water that fell on the floors—----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30
(was) the plants of the earth.
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(9) She is the daughter of Idasus and Gourey,
the largest, Dorfey[5], The mother, then, of men.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------35
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(10) (She took) a long thread from the belly,
She wove us men
with it and she made us so, with prudence.
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(11) And she then taught us to weave,
so we can make clothes
that shelters us.
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(12) And, then, Barabey---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------45
He taught us the sowing of the soil,
for us to eat during the year.
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(13) And Blius taught us to hunt,
so that, of their sons-----—--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------50
we have during the days.
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(14) Then, Dorfey wove the besey[6],
from the waters, like this,
which take us behind death------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------55
The gazes of souls towards the skies.
(15) And, furthermore, she (wove) immediately afterwards, the demorus[7]
from the cold of the night,
which take us into dreams
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(16) And then he (wove) the greatest ones[8],
who (live) in the mountains
(and), furthermore, they hunt us men.
The gazes of souls towards the skies.
[1] Eloduian goddess of the earth.
[2] Eloduian god of sky.
[3] Eloduian god of the sun.
[4] Eloduian goddess of the moon.
[5] Giant spider-goddess of Western Vermaric origin. From Western Proto-Vermaric *Dyrfja; this, in turn, from Proto-Vermaric *styrv-sja ("she who weaves"). Cf. Dýrvs sb., Dyρбieu cl., Durbǧös pb., sdourbotor elod.
[6] deities of Vermaric origin who guide the souls of the dead.
[7] Deities of Vermaric origin who brought sleep to men and made them wake up.
[8] The bodeugeys, mythological giants of Vermaric origin.