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Los z gore Kineo
091 The Moose of Mount Kineo
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land · Charles M. SkinnerO besedilu
Los z gore Kineo
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- Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
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- Charles M. Skinner
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Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
Obsežna zgodovinska zbirka ameriških legend, ki jih je Skinner zbral in avtorsko rekonstruiral. Bralni jezik je Slovenščina, izvirnik pa prihaja iz vira Myths and Legends of Our Own Land v jeziku English.
Besedilo
Los z gore Kineo
Vzhodna izročila o Hiawathi se v marsičem razlikujejo od zahodnih. Na vzhodu je znan kot Glooskap, bog ljudstva Passamaquoddies, in njegove sledi so ostale na številnih krajih v kanadskih obmorskih provincah in Mainu. On je stvarem dal imena, ustvaril ljudi, jih napolnil z življenjem in z nevihtami v njih zbujal čudenje. Živel je na skalnati vzpetini Blomidon ob vhodu v zaliv Minas Basin v Novi Škotski, agati, ki jih je mogoče najti ob njenem vznožju, pa so dragulji, ki jih je izdelal za ogrlico svoje babice, ko ji je povrnil mladost. Med krajema Fort Cumberland in Parrsboro v Novi Škotski je dvignil greben, da bi lahko s suhimi nogami prečkal jezero, ki so ga ustvarili bobri, ko so zajezili ožino pri Blomidonu. Pozneje pa je bobre ubil, podrl njihov jez in pustil, da je jezero odteklo v morje, nato pa se odpravil na lov proti jugu. Pri Mount Desertu je ubil losa in njegove kosti zalučal na tla pri Bar Harborju, kjer jih je še danes mogoče videti, spremenjene v kamen; drobovje pa je vrgel na drugo stran zaliva in tudi to je še vidno v obliki skal, v katere so njegove puščične osti vtisnile vdolbine. Mount Kineo je bil nekoč velikanska losinja, ki jo je ubil in spremenil v goro, Indijanci pa v tej vzpetini še danes razpoznavajo obrise živali. Little Kineo je bil losji mladič, ki ga je ubil ob isti priložnosti, Kettle Mountain pa je njegov kotel iz tabora, ki ga je v lovski vnemi zalučal na tla.
Izvirnik
091 The Moose of Mount Kineo
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Eastern traditions concerning Hiawatha differ in many respects from those of the West. In the East he is known as Glooskap, god of the Passamaquoddies, and his marks are left in many places in the maritime provinces and Maine. It was he who gave names to things, created men, filled them with life, and moved their wonder with storms. He lived on the rocky height of Blomidon, at the entrance to Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, and the agates to be found along its foot are jewels that he made for his grandmother's necklace, when he restored her youth. He threw up a ridge between Fort Cumberland and Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, that he might cross, dry shod, the lake made by the beavers when they dammed the strait at Blomidon, but he afterward killed the beavers, and breaking down their dam he let the lake flow into the sea, and went southward on a hunting tour. At Mount Desert he killed a moose, whose bones he flung to the ground at Bar Harbor, where they are still to be seen, turned to stone, while across the bay he threw the entrails, and they, too, are visible as rocks, dented with his arrow-points. Mount Kineo was anciently a cow moose of colossal size that he slew and turned into a height of land, and the Indians trace the outline of the creature in the uplift to this day. Little Kineo was a calf moose that he slew at the same time, and Kettle Mountain is his camp-caldron that he flung to the ground in the ardor of the chase.
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