Hocąk Syllabic Text — Warbundle Feast of the Thunderbird Clan, Version 3

narrated by a Member of the Thunderbird Clan

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English Translation

* Radin has, "You have put aside all the wrongs I have done you and accepted my inventation."
** Radin has, "You have filled my lodge."

* just before this word are a number of indistinct markings which appear to have been erased words.

* the meaning of this word, a hapaxlegomenon, is analyzable: bo-, "to be propelled by air"; and ǧicga, "to strike".
** this term, hikipirak, which is a hapaxlegomenon, clearly refers to what we would now call a "bullet-proof vest."

* honikižu appears to be a variant of hanikižu, of the same meaning.

* Radin translates (or perhaps paraphrases), Woną́ǧirera hižą hiraikiroicąwigo, hąké hōsré wawanįkjawiną. Wągᵋra hįkira hakikowek hírešgè, wapahi horogéja wawawišge wapahi hokųgᵋra wáwekjawiną, as, "And if in a vision we be directed to go on the warpath, may we receive the complete blessing, even though we be in the midst of the battle."

* this could also be husek.

* Radin translates this as, "I offer tobacco to you, that I may become a warrior and have long life."

* hija-hora-kara-k-here-gi. Thanks to Sheila Shigley for her suggestions here.

* based on hikiwaną’į beng analysed as, hi-, by means of; ki-, "one's own"; waną’į, "mind (etc.)".

* that is, in the middle of the day.

* Radin "translates" this as, "May we have victory in war: and in the presence of the weapons of our enemies, make us safe."
** hižą́t’e means, "someone dies." Otherwise, the rest is Radin's translation, which is more of a paraphrase.

* cf. hokirujijis (Ao KAi Loo tti ttir), "short of where, what one or more wants or ought to be" (Kingswan).

* normally one would expect Hąbᵋra, although this form is found elsewhere. It appears to be hap-hi-ra, "the cause of light," which when coupled with wąkšigo’įra, "life," that it is divine life that is the cause of the light that Morning Star possesses, and that by breaking off some of that divine light, it may be converted to life.
** Radin translates wąkšigo’įra hąbira ruceya’ųkjawira nį̄gítawiną, as "that is why we ask, grandfather, that we be blessed with life." Rucé (Loo ttAe) means, "to cut or separate by hand" (Kingswan), with the implication that the substance is soft.

* this appears to be from kurusgī́c, "to tie up": ya-ki-kurusgī́c-hi-kja-wi-ną. 

* cf. hirokikewe (Ai Lo KAi KAe we), "to wear signifying, identifying make up" (Kingswan).
** cf. hatuxúruk, "I could do."

* cf. hirakíkisànįk, "by their sides."

* the period after the /n/ may be in error.
** elsewhere, hi’į́ra means, "living by means of."

* rasgi means "to be angered by speech," but rasgini is the stem here, but is not found elsewhere. The translation has, "we will perhaps make you smoke". Hawi means, "we do."

* Lipkind describes hašą́wąk (A dA. wK) as, "the auxiliary for the lying position." The period between A dA and wK would be inappropriate.

* hirówakix means, "around"; but -niháną, meaning "mine" applies, so it has been said, only to animals. So the reading or translation of ni A n de e de is doubtful.

* just before the /n/ an xAe appears to have been erased.
** the underlined is an uncertain reading.
*** the translation has "red feathers," but this would be mąšušujᵋra (m dAo dAotto L).

* the translation at WT 537 has, "he should try and use it."

* an initial /h/ has been lost through external sandhi.

* a slip of the pen for tto l A.

* an initial /h/ has been lost through external sandhi.