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River God, we love you because you bathe us to keep us cool and wash our body clean of soil and we need you to wash our clothes, and to cook our food.

Tik muaw nemi chakalin, michin, tekwisij, sipakti; tejtet, ashal, pulul, pial ipal ne tal; wan muchi tay taja tikpia muchi timunekit. Yajika padiush Tiut Apan.

In your waters live shrimp, fish, crabs and salamanders; stones, sand, mud, and creatures of the earth; and all the things you have are everything that we need. For this we thank you, God of the River!

Pejkia ne shupan! Pejkia wetzi ne at! Muchi ne jaral yawi mulini wan ne tal yawia shushuknajkisa. Ne takwalmet yawita kipiat itakwal, yawit mutaliat tumawak wan te yawit kiseliat mayan. Yajika ne tushupan yaja techtakwaltia muchi tay tinemit ijpak ne tal, wan kichiwa ka tuweyka mutetzilnajkisa, tumawaya wan weya. Yajika, kaj kenka Tiut? ka yaja techtuktia ne at; kituktia ne shalnaj ejekat pal tikijiukwit; ne tunal pal techtawilua ne tal kan tiktaliat tujtukshi pal weyat ne kwajkwawit pal tikutunat wan iwan yaja tiketzat ne tukal kan tinemit; nusan ne kan nemit ne tukujkunew, kan te techmaka ne tunal, kan tesu tisekmikit. Yajika kaj weliskia kichiwa tay Tiut kichiwa tuwan?

Winter has begun! The rain has begun to fall! All the fields will sprout and the land will turn green. The animals will have their food, they will grow fat and will not go hungry. Therefore our winter feeds us all who are upon the earth, and makes our body grow full, healthy and strong. Therefore, who is like unto God? for he sends us rain; he sends us air to breathe; the sun to cast light on the earth on which we tread so that the trees will grow and we can cut wood with which to build our homes where we live; where our children also live, where we shelter from the sun, where we do not feel the cold. Therefore who else could do what God does for us?

And when I saw her alone I went to talk to her, smiling she said: What do you want from me?

Hago las tortillas encima del comal.

Cuezo los frijoles en una olla, y pongo la olla encima del fuego.

— Nemi ijtik ne kal? Nemi ijpak ne tapech?

— ¿Está dentro de la casa? ¿Está encima de la cama?

Ashkan shiktali muchi ijpak ini mesaj, pal naja nitachia... Nikita ka inte nemi nikan.

Ahora pon todo encima de esta mesa, para que yo vea... Veo que no está aquí.

— ¡Si es así, mucho me alegraría!

Siete camisas están lavadas

Dos mujeres están lavando

Una niña está en la cama

Una araña está en el árbol

Cuántas mujeres están lavando?

He gave her a block of wood to sit on; "sit down", he said.

When he spoke to her the skull throw itself and stuck onto his neck.

Laj! Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.

"Lah" -- it stuck here on the deer (on its neck).

Kitalij ka nepa. Pak ka tik (sic) tzinkal kitalij.

She put it over there, in the corner of the house she placed it.

They skinned him, washed him, and took him to their grandmother's.