had been beating his drum,
Who had been performing healing rituals
Throughout the day and night,
Now exhausted and
Soaring up to the sky...
If I push open
Another side,
If I look at it
With my sharp eyes,
With my wide-open eyes –
On the immense meadow not bound by snow,
Slender, white birches with frills
Grew in a row,
Bending gracefully
Like swans,
Tossing their heads
Like white cranes.
Reminders of khotun-women
Coming in a line
Pausing and stepping to the music
Of a Sakha man,
Shaking in a circle dance
Merrily,
Treading all at once
In long, beautiful fur coats,
With their silver necklaces
Clinking loudly,
With their hat fineries trembling,
With silver plates on their hats shining...
If you look down
The mown, furthest side of it –
Huge, concave rocky mountains,
Shot up
As chestnut stallions
Stood gnawing
With their rusty teeth.
Their ragged cliffs rose up
Pushing – rubbing against each other
As fluffed-up nape fur
Of a six-year-old male elk
Combed backwards and forwards...
A famous pass from which
The kin of Khoromnu-Khan
With large, grabbing paws,
Which seized quietly,
Which pulled quickly,
Ran out unseen
Under the sorcerous bottom
Of the northern, tumultuous sky
To destroy
The tribe of Kun-Erken
Turning them into ashes:
The dry Great Kuktui khotun pass
With fine shapes,
With magical power,
With an offering of a gull
The size of a six-year-old ox head
Stuck on a sacred bagakh post,7
Stretched sonorously along...
Endowed with a soul
By the descendant of Sugeh-Khan8
Ascending from the Sung Jahyn tribe,
Terrible and enormous,
With sorcerous power blazing
On its feathers
The size of a log house,
Biting deadly
From its front side,
Kicking mightily
From its back side,
Hitting powerfully
From its left and right sides,
With a squawking, stony palate,
With a clinking, white beak,
A flight-feathered bearer of death,
Khotoi-Khomporun oburgu.9
Horrible demons
Dwelling underneath,
Who were famous for being the forefathers
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