Tashka y Walo

Mitología Choctaw-Chickasaw


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los Chactas (Dónde Choctaws) son una tribu nativa americana originaria del sureste de los Estados Unidos (Mississippi, Alabama y Luisiana). aquí está leyenda en inglés: Tashka y Walo.

Tashka y Walo: hermanos que siguieron al Sol

Long, long ago two young brothers, Tashka and Walo, decided they
wanted to follow Sun. Every morning they saw him come up over the
edge of the earth, pass high overhead, and late in the day die in the west.

So they waited until Sun was directly overhead and then set out
after him. At first they walked at an easy pace, but in a while
Tashka said to Walo, "Sun is too far ahead of us. We must walk faster."

Los hermanos aceleraron el paso, pero Sun se mantuvo delante de ellos.

"Debemos correr o nunca lo atraparemos", instó Tashka a su hermano.

They started to run, but that night when Sun died, the brothers
were still in their own country.

"Lo atraparemos mañana", prometieron.

That night they slept, and the next day when Sun was again overhead
they set off once more to follow him. The brothers continued pursuing
Sun until they had grown to be young men. At last they reached a
great body of water. The only land was the shore on which they stood.

They saw Sun die, sinking into the water. They passed over the
water and entered Sun’s house with him. Sun’s house was the great dome of the sky.

All around the brothers were stars and Moon. Moon was a woman,
Sun’s wife. Moon said to the brothers, "How have you come here,
so far from home?"

"Hemos seguido a Sun en su viaje diario desde que éramos niños".

Then Sun said, "Why have you followed me? It is not time for
you to come here."

"Queríamos ver a dónde fuiste cuando moriste", respondieron los hermanos.

Sun spoke to his wife: "Boil water and bring it to me in a
pot." Sun put the young men in the boiling water and rubbed
them until their skin came off.

Sun then said, "I will return you to your home. But you must
not speak a word to anyone for four days. If you speak you will live and prosper.

"¿Conoces el camino a casa?" Sol continuó.

"No", respondieron los hermanos.

So Sun took them to the edge of the sky, where they looked down
to earth. "I do not see our home," Tashka said.

"Yo tampoco puedo verlo", dijo Walo.

Sun called a large buzzard and placed the brothers on his back.
Buzzard started toward earth. The brothers had no trouble keeping
their hold on the bird’s back until they passed into clouds. A strong
wind was blowing and Buzzard was blown about; the brothers hung on desperately.

Pero llegaron a la Tierra a salvo. Buzzard los dejó en los árboles cerca de su casa.

The brothers were resting under the trees, recovering from their
frightening journey, when an old man passed by and recognized them.
He did not speak to them, however, but continued down the road until
he met the brothers’ mother. "Your boys have come back,"
he said. "But they are men now."

The mother ran toward Tashka and Walo. She wanted to know where
they had been and what had happened to them. At first they did not
answer, because of what Sun had said about not talking for four days.

The mother worried because she had forced her sons to speak. But
she took them to her house, and all the neighbors came in. The brothers
told everything they had seen and done during their years of following Sun.

When they had told everything, they died and went up into the great
sky to remain forever.