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Hiawatha/Minnehaha
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"Yonder dwells the great Pearl-Feather,
Megissogwon, the Magician,
Manito of Wealth and Wampum,
Guarded by his fiery serpents,
Guarded by the black pitch-water.
You can see his fiery serpents,
The Kenabeek, the great serpents,
Coiling, playing in the water;
You can see the black pitch-water
Stretching far away beyond them,
To the purple clouds of sunset!
"He it was who slew my father,
By his wicked wiles and cunning,
When he from the moon descended,
When he came on earth to seek me.
He, the mightiest of Magicians,
Sends the fever from the marshes,
Sends the pestilential vapors,
Sends the poisonous exhalations,
Sends the white fog from the fen-lands,
Sends disease and death among us!
"Take your bow, O Hiawatha,
Take your arrows, jasper-headed,
Take your war-club, Puggawaugun,
And your mittens, Minjekahwun,
And your birch-canoe for sailing,
And the oil of Mishe-Nahma,
So to smear its sides, that swiftly
You may pass the black pitch-water;
Slay this merciless magician,
Save the people from the fever
That he breathes across the fen-lands,
And avenge my father's murder!"
The Song of Hiawatha-Longfellow
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Ahnunggokwan
Tonight we send forth incantations
Up to the Star World
From which great myths unfold
From ghosts and serpents that were foretold
We sang it into being
The forests sing murderous love songs
Written by ax and knife
History stained the ground in many dreams
Where man transformed himself into beasts
In the great thunderous water
Visions came forth of a gathering
Singing praises to the land and sky
To which each would offer a sacrifice
We spoke it into being
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