Monday, September 3, 2012

Ame atara - There is a Woman


This is yet another song from my childhood, called "She Changes".  Moving Breath sang this and made a cd of it.  I'm not sure if it originated with them, but that's the version I first knew and as a result also the melody that I have used here.

I can't seem to find a version of it online, so I've posted lyrics here for reference.

I also at some point recently translated part of Cunningham's "Before Time Was"; If I can find the piece of paper it was scribbled hastily upon, then I'll post it too.

Order of texts: Sandic -- Gloss of Sandic

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Ame atara, ba lēyarab nocri ama
ta xebtan ae iné (ân) katoloin oahl
pa aŵ atara pal rep aŵ gre sem
ama aŵ, érama usei

Katoloi aahl ba tiaktab jjew aŵ
kekob alēlét ber tiam ara aŵ

biab arec, iné ân biab batalēl
ta dabin ivin (otiab) arec, iné ân otiab otalēl

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There is a woman who makes the night sky,
her fingers, behold, are knitting it
She is within us from the beginning unto the end
Our mother, our beloved grandmother

She knits the tapestry of our lives
and holds the needle which guides the thread of our existence

The things she touches, they change
Everything she touches, it changes


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