[1.1] Gods of the skies, who take care of the Symbaians. [1.2] We have come to Rhibacarous[1] today to serve you, like every spring. [1.3] Oh Dartians! Give your ear to the teaching that comes from the gods, [1.4] for they are favorable to you, to the livestock, to the tribes as well. [2.5] Thus Goracor and Ercathy then lay, at the end of the day. [2.6] Three goddesses were born from them and they were taken to Stix at the end of a day, [2.7] so that, in this way, the god filled the bodies of the three goddesses with life. [2.8] But, before this, they touched Bosphy's hair[2] with their fingers. [3.9] For this reason, they will not die, however, the meats will wear out over the years [3.10] and thus they will then become old and, furthermore, they will rot. [3.11] Furthermore, for this reason, the gods of the Plaerx called them Tarthiadrac[3]. [3.12] And they are Terday[4], Cydrarcy[5] and Tharhatarthy[6], those of the night. [4.13] But when the bodies died and the flesh fell, [4.14] Stix expelled them, therefore, from the skies, from that moment until forever. [4.15] In Rhibacarous, they then arrived at a forest and Terday saw [4.16] her face, reaching a river and, then, she killed a deer with her hands, [5.17] then cut its neck and placed its head on hers. [5.18] And she killed a wolf, thus removing its eyes from their sockets [5.19] and placing these inside her own. But the animal turned out to be a scaldarpil. [5.20] And she, the goddess, saw the life of men through the trees[7]. [6.21] And Cydrarcy opened the flesh, and then took out the heart, [6.22] then, from the wolf's chest and placed it, in the same way, in the place [6.23] where her own was before; but it was too small for hers [6.24] and so she threw it away from her, into the black interior of the forest. [7.25] Then Tharhatarthy removed, from her muscle, her skin all over her [7.26] and placed it on her body. But it, because of its light, burned up around it. [7.27] she Then mixed with her goddess flesh. And she also covered her body. [7.28] These are, certainly, the three black and disastrous daughters of the Plaerx. [8.29] Chelathtagipecous[8] was then skilled at hunting, certainly, among the Dartians [8.30] and, when Golparcous[9] was a child, he took him to the forest to teach him. [8.31] In silence, both of them advanced like this, [8.32] moving away, however, from the men, hoping to find, in this way, a deer. [9.33] Thus, the light of Athur[10] was slipping, then, through the leaves on the roads, [9.34] but Terday saw them, in silence, from behind the trunks. [9.35] Then, the old man having seen her head, an arrow, which stuck in her chest, [9.36] with an icy edge, she shot from it, with her firm hand. [10.37] But the goddess did not feel it, because the skins were not hers then [10.38] and the (Terday's) hand cut (Quelaztaguipeco's) neck and his head fell, in this way, [10.39] But Golparcous, however, wasn't that tall for him to touch his neck and, [10.40] also seeing the body, frightened, he could not move. [11.41] And Rhocous then saw the son and, so that the goddess would not take him away from him, [11.42] with his feet, he then reached up to him and, in this way, with them, [11.43] he carried him out of the forest, far from those that do not die, to Rhibacarous. [11.44] And the mother took care of him afterwards, until Golparcous was an adult. [12.45] And his chest was then filled with indignation; and, with a sert[11] of gold, [12.46] he went to the forest. And he called the goddesses very angry [12.47] and truly determined, moreover, to recover the body of the grandfather, [12.48] his voice crossing, in this way, all the roads. [13.49] And Terday then saw the impetus within him, through the flesh [13.50] and, in a clearing under the light of Coray[12], inside the burned skin, [13.51] he found Tharhatarthy and, then, recognized, in this way, the grandfather's arrow, [13.52] among the rustling of the leaves and the singing of the birds. [14.53] The young man took an arrow and launched it towards Tarthiadrac, [14.54] but then it stuck in the grandfather's flesh, reaching hers. [14.55] In this way, the divine light escaped through the wound [14.56] and the (Golparcous') muscles were, then, firm, for this reason, like stones. [15.57] Then Cydrarcy pounced on him, and then, in this way, took out the heart from within him. [15.58] But it was not as big as her chest and she threw it away from her. [15.59] But, the one with the flying feet having caught up with him, before he touched the ground, [15.60] he carried it to the young man, so that the blood that flowed within him brought life. [16.61] Then Golparcous took an arrow and, with it, removed his eyes, [16.62] so that he would not see the divine light. And, in this way, taking the arrow with his hands, [16.63] which had been stuck in the thenacay[13] made, certainly, of the ashes, he dragged it, [16.64] cutting the flesh of his grandfather and removing it from that of the goddess.
[1] Řibakarôys ("full of birds"). Dartous epithet. See note 4 of the Epistle of Sphiod.
[2] See Paladasty, 48.189.
[3] Tarzíadrax, "Black fleshes".
[4] Terdáαs, "she who cuts"
[5] Kydrárkαs, "she with the red fingers"
[6] Zařatárzαs, "she with ash skin"
[7] Scaldarpels are wolves made of earth that devour the flesh of the buried dead to keep the earth clean. See the Epistle of Sphiod, §17.
[8] General of Darlaencous' army (see op. cit. §10) and father of Scartisphe, mother of Golparcous.
[9] He was son of Scartisphe and the god Rhocous (see op. cit. §4).
[10] Symbaian god of the sun.
[11] sérζ, Symbainic bow.
[12] Symbaian goddess of the moon.
[13] Symbaian chest armor.