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TLINGIT MYTHS AND TEXTS
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All these, your grandfathers, were as if sick. But now you are good medicine to us. These words of yours have cured us."
("Ho′ho
I thank you deeply,
I thank you deeply,
gunᴀłtcī′cᴀ′skî.
I thank you very much.
I thank you very much.
Yā-îłī′łk!-hᴀs
These your grandfathers
These your grandfathers
ade′
to
to
ᴀtq!ēỵatᴀniỵê′.
things you have done in speech.
things you have done in speech.
Hededjᴀ′
It always
It always
ye
so
so
ỵatī′
is
is
qā
a person
a person
dākᴀnū′q!u
his outside shell
his outside shell
uwax̣u′gu
a dry place
a dry place
yex
like
like
kᴀdūłx̣ī′t.
will take to.
will take to.
Aỵī′sînî
You have done
You have done
yā′yīdᴀt
thus
thus
wū′nawua′
to this dead
to this dead
ỵa-îła′āt.
of ours.
of ours.
He tcᴀłdakᴀ′t
All these
All these
ya-îłī′łk!-hᴀs
These your grandfathers
These your grandfathers
ỵanī′kᵘ
sick
sick
yêx
like it
like it
hᴀs
they
they
tī′ỵīn.
were.
were.
Haỵidᴀ′t qo′a
But now
But now
āk!e′
good
good
nākᵘ
medicine
medicine
haq!ē′x
to us
to us
ỵītī′.
you are.
you are.
Ya-iyaqaỵî′
These words of yours
These words of yours
haosînē′x.")
have cured us.")
have cured us.")
Then they would say to the dead woman:
"Get up from your husbands path [so that they may pass out]."
("Hᴀsduq!ᴀnā′t
("From their way
("From their way
kîdā′n
get up
get up
îxō′xq!ᵘyên.")
your husbands.")
your husbands.")
The spirits of the dead of both phratries are supposed to be smoking while their friends on earth smoke, and they also share the feast. People of the opposite phratry took care of the dead, because it was thought men would be wanting in respect to their opposites if members of their own phratry were invited to do it. For this service the opposites were well paid.