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Videnje na gori Adams
099 The Vision on Mount Adams
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land · Charles M. SkinnerO besedilu
Videnje na gori Adams
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- Myths and Legends of Our Own Land
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- Charles M. Skinner
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- 099 The Vision on Mount Adams
O izvirniku
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
Videnje na gori Adams
Z goro Adams je povezanih mnogo izročil, ki so že zbledela iz spomina. Stari ljudje se spominjajo, da se je v njihovem otroštvu govorilo o odkritju čarobnega kamna; o okostju Indijanca, ki se je prikazalo v govorečem viharju; o vedeževalcu, ki se je opolnoči odpravil nekaj iskat visoko med pečine in orlovska gnezda. Oktobra 1765 se je oddelek devetih Rogersovih rangerjev začel vračati z bojnega pohoda v Kanado, s seboj pa so nosili posodje, svečnike in srebrn kip, ki so jih naropali v cerkvi svetega Frančiška. Indijanec, ki se je zavezal, da bo skupino vodil skozi sotesko Notch, jih je izdal in jih po blodnjaku sotesk pripeljal do izvira reke Israel, kjer je izginil, potem ko je enega izmed vojakov zastrupil s strupnikom klopotače. Rangerji so povsem izgubili orientacijo ter tavali sem ter tja med zasneženimi hribi, dokler se niso drug za drugim sesedli in umrli v divjini. Edini preživeli je po mnogih dneh dosegel naselje z nahrbtnikom, polnim človeškega mesa.
Leta 1816 so svečnike našli blizu jezera Memphremagog, kipa pa niso našli nikoli. Duhovi sestradanih mož so mnogo zim tožili po gozdovih in nekoč je lovca, ki je taboril na pobočju gore Adams, opolnoči prebudil zvok orgel. Megle so se umikale in zagledal je, da je zaspal blizu mogočne kamnite cerkve, ki je žarela v blagi svetlobi. Vrata so bila na stežaj odprta in v notranjosti je klečalo pleme Indijancev. Na oltarju so se bleščale sveče, katerih žarki so prodirali skozi oblake kadila, skale pa so se tresle od gromovitih sunkov glasbe. Nenadoma so cerkev, luči in verniki izginili, iz meglic pa je stopila vrsta čudnih postav, ki so korakale v tišini. Ko so se začele spuščati z gore, je srebrna podoba, ki je lebdela v zraku, razprla par bleščečih kril in poletela ter izginila zgoraj med kaotično nagrmadenimi skalami, podobnimi grajskim nadzidkom.
Izvirnik
099 The Vision on Mount Adams
Naslednje strani prikazujejo izvirno besedilo za primerjavo.
There are many traditions connected with Mount Adams that have faded out of memory. Old people remember that in their childhood there was talk of the discovery of a magic stone; of an Indian's skeleton that appeared in a speaking storm; of a fortune-teller that set off on a midnight quest, far up among the crags and eyries. In October, 1765, a detachment of nine of Rogers's Rangers began the return from a Canadian foray, bearing with them plate, candlesticks, and a silver statue that they had rifled from the Church of St. Francis. An Indian who had undertaken to guide the party through the Notch proved faithless, and led them among labyrinthine gorges to the head of Israel's River, where he disappeared, after poisoning one of the troopers with a rattlesnake's fang. Losing all reckoning, the Rangers tramped hither and thither among the snowy hills and sank down, one by one, to die in the wilderness, a sole survivor reaching a settlement after many days, with his knapsack filled with human flesh.
In 1816 the candlesticks were recovered near Lake Memphremagog, but the statue has never been laid hold upon. The spirits of the famished men were wont, for many winters, to cry in the woods, and once a hunter, camped on the side of Mount Adams, was awakened at midnight by the notes of an organ. The mists were rolling off, and he found that he had gone to sleep near a mighty church of stone that shone in soft light. The doors were flung back, showing a tribe of Indians kneeling within. Candles sparkled on the altar, shooting their rays through clouds of incense, and the rocks shook with thunder-gusts of music. Suddenly church, lights, worshippers vanished, and from the mists came forth a line of uncouth forms, marching in silence. As they started to descend the mountain a silver image, floating in the air, spread a pair of gleaming pinions and took flight, disappearing in the chaos of battlemented rocks above.
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