Nèk Ansisktayèsàk

The Seven Sisters (the Pleiades) . . . Told by Nora Thompson Dean to Bruce Pearson and Jim Rementer in 1967.

English:

Those wise men said, "We have done wrong.

Lenape:

Nèk lëpweìnuwàk luweyok, "Nchanilìsihëna.

English:

He is unhappy our father the Creator.

Lenape:

Mahtelìntàm èt wa kuxëna Kishelëmùkònk.

English:

We will pray each and every one of us."

Lenape:

Patamahënàch wèmi èntxiènk."

English:

Then they sent for several children

Lenape:

Na wènchimao kèxa mimënsa

English:

because the children were pure.

Lenape:

èli pilsuwàk nèki mimënsa.

English:

The thought of the wise men

Lenape:

Liteheyok nèki lëpweìnuwàk

English:

was that the Creator would accept their prayers

Lenape:

xu Kishelëmùkònk wètënëmën nèkao patamweokàna

English:

rather than those of the older people.

Lenape:

nawènahta nèki kìkayàk.

English:

Those children listened to all that he had to say

Lenape:

Nèki mimënsàk këlìstamëwok wèmi kèku èluwèt

English:

that old man, they began to pray.

Lenape:

naka hilusësa, alëmi patamaok.

English:

While they were doing that, they began to rise (into the air)

Lenape:

Nèli në lësihtit, alëmi àspiyok

English:

several of those boys and girls.

Lenape:

kèxuwàk nèki pilaechìchàk òk xkwechëchàk.

English:

One of the old women screamed out and said,

Lenape:

Kwëti na xawshisës xahulamu luwe,

English:

"Get those dirty clothes."

Lenape:

"Nati nèl niskhèmpsa."

English:

They began to repeatedly hit those children who were ascending.

Lenape:

Alëmi pëpahkàmaneyo nèk àspichik mimënsàk.

English:

They used those dirty clothes and when they were hit

Lenape:

Nhakatàmëneyo nèl niskhèmpsa ènta pëpahkamahtit

English:

several of them fell down, they landed on the ground.

Lenape:

kèxa pënihëleyok, hàkink mahtèxinuk.

English:

Then seven girls ascended

Lenape:

Na nishash xkwechëchàk àspiyok

English:

and they stayed forever in the sky our ancestors said,

Lenape:

chimahpuwàk mushhakunk luweyok kikayuyëmënaninkahke,

English:

"They can be seen when those Seven Sisters

Lenape:

"Nèhkwësuwàk ènta nèk Ansisktayèsàk

English:

are there in the sky in the Autumn."

Lenape:

ahpihtit mushhakunk tahkokwëni."

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