The Weasels and the Giants

The Weasels and the Giants in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


Here is the Latin you need to understand the story; I have linked to the story page by page with the Latin passages below:

p. 254

Si cenare vult, carnem cum excrementis misce; cum aqua oportet urinam miscere.

If he wants something to eat, mix meat with shit; mix urine with water.

p. 255

Caro vero cum excrementis mixta, aqua cum urina.

But the meat was mixed with shit, water with urine.

...ita ut testes combusti essent.

so that his testicles caught on fire.

Caput testesque excisi et ejecti.

His head and testicles were cut off and thrown away.

Testium ejectorum crepitus a gigantis fratribus auditus.

The rattling of his thrown-away testicles was heard by his brother giants.

p. 256

Testes conspectos assidue devoraverunt. 

When they saw the testicles, they devoured them greedily.

Hi semper omnium animalium testes edebant, quare No'yodika, Testium Editores, appellati sunt.

They always ate the testicles of all kinds of animals, so they were called No'yodika, Eaters of Testicles.

Quidnam videtis? Matris vaginam?

What do you see? Your mother's vagina?

p. 257

Minxit.

He peed.

Coyote and his Daughters

Coyote and his Daughters in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


Here is the Latin you need to understand the story; I have linked to the story page by page with the Latin passages below:

p. 248

Ita fecit ut, vestibus ablatis, pudenda muliebra vidisset. 

(Coyote) did this so that when (his daughters') clothes had been blown aside he could see their female private parts.

Formosis pudendis amore inflammatus coitum concupivit.

On fire with love because of the beautiful private parts, he wanted to have sex (with his daughters).

Tunc demum membrum in vaginam inseruit.

Then at last he stuck his penis in her vagina.  

Iterum vestibus alitius cinctis cum filia coire conatus est.

Again, after she had pulled up her clothes even higher (than the first daughter), he tried to have sex with his (second) daughter.  

Coire incepit cum uxore.

He began having sex with his wife.

p. 249

Noctu cum eis assidue coibat. 

He had sex all night long with them (his daughters).

Mane filiarum vestes semine humidae lavandae erant.

In the morning, his daughters' clothes, drenched with semen, had to be washed.

Omnibus noctibus Coyote assidue coibat cum mulieribus.

Coyote spent night after night constantly having sex with the women. (his daughters)

Puer Canem conspexit membro inserto, dum cauda terram violenter percutiebat.

(Coyote's son) saw Coyote with his penis stuck (into his daughter) and his tail beating violently against the ground.

p. 250

Ceteris inscientibus membrum virile in puellae vaginam inseruit. 

When the others weren't looking, (Coyote) stuck his penis into the girl's (his granddaughter's) vagina.

Quo facto, rupta mentula, dimidium in vagina remanebit.

When he did that, his dick broke in two, half of it stuck in the vagina.  

Canis membrum extraxit.

(Hummingbird) pulled out Coyote's penis.

The Theft of Pine-nuts

The Theft of Pine-nuts in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


Here is the Latin you need to understand the story; I have linked to the story page by page with the Latin passages below:

p. 247

...ut cum rana muliebri coiret. 

... in order to have sex with the female frog.

Illum in mulierem incumbentem Grus calcibus interfecit.

Crane kicked him to death as he lay on the woman.

It cracks me up whenever he interrupts a sentence midway to switch to Latin!

The Theft of Fire

The Theft of Fire in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.

Here is the Latin you need to understand the story; I have linked to the story page by page with the Latin passages below:

p. 244

Apud puellas ambulabat, earumque pudenda scrutabatur.

(Coyote) walked among the young women, and he inspected their private parts.  

Comas non invenit. 

He did not find any (public) hair.

Ad castra rediit. 

He went back to the camp.

Cantavit "Absunt comae."

He sang, "There is no (pubic) hair."

Multas comas invenit. 

He found much (pubic) hair.

Rediit, cantavit "Multae sunt comae."

He came back, he sang, "There is much (pubic) hair."

[Google Translate did fine with this Latin; it's the first time Google Translate has actually gotten it correct, but it's hard to imagine Latin simpler than this. I wonder if Google Translate understood that it is pubic hair!]

Wolf and Coyote

Wolf and Coyote in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.

Here is the Latin you need to understand the story; I have linked to the story page by page with the Latin passages below:

p. 239

Lupus, "Homines oportet ex digito nasci sine coitu," inquit.

Wolf said, "People should be born from a finger without sex."

"Bonus est coitus, ex utero nasci oportet. 

(Coyote said), "Sex is good; people should be born from the uterus."

Melli est coitus."

Sex is sweet."

p. 240

Conspectis pudendis muliebribus tu certe coitum concupisces.

After you've seen the female private parts, for sure YOU are going to want to have sex.

Conspectis pudendis Canis libidine accensus se continere non potuit. 

Having seen the private parts, Coyote was inflamed with lust and could not hold himself back. 

Prostrata muliere cum ea concumbere conatus est.

When the (Bear) woman stretched out (on the ground), he tried to lie together with her.

p. 242

Cum earum pudendis quasi copulare vellet ludere incipiebat.

(Coyote) began to play with their private parts as if he wanted to have sex.

("they" are the girls whom Coyote is escorting to bed, disguised as an old woman)

The Creation of the Shoshone

The Creation of the Shoshone

in 

The Northern Shoshone

by Robert Lowie, 1909.

Here is the Latin you need to understand the story; I have linked to the story page by page with the Latin passages below:

p. 237

In media via, Canis amore inflammatus muliere frui conatus est.

Along the way, Coyote, inflamed with love, tried to have sex with the woman.

Earum vagina dentibus insita. 

Each woman's vagina was sown with teeth. 

Quod edunt, dentibus vaginalibus mordent. 

Whatever they eat, they chew with their vaginal teeth. 

Coire simula, sed aliquid aliud intrude.

Pretend to have sex, but stick something else in there.

(this is the advice Coyote receives from his anus)

Minxerunt.

They pissed.

Penem insertum esse simulavit, vere nihil inseruit. 

(Coyote) pretended to insert his penis, but in fact he didn't insert anything.

Rima clausa est, non eum vulneravit. 

The hole closed, but it did not hurt him.

(i.e. because he hadn't put anything into the vagina's hole)

Fugiens ad portam cucurrit. 

Escaping, he ran to the door.

Vetula secuta; cuius quoque dentes non Canem, sed solam togam momorderunt. 

The old woman followed him, but her teeth also did not bite Coyote, only his garment.

(coyote: canis togatus!)

Canis effugiens dentium crepitum audiebat.

As he escaped, Coyote heard the sound of teeth crunching.

p. 238

Tunc in rima claudentem cornu inseruit. 
Then he inserted the horn.

(the horn is a scraper made of elk-horn which the anus told Coyote to stick into the vaginas)

Omnes dentes cornu perrupit sustulitque.

The horn broke all her (vaginal) teeth and tore them out.

Ad puellam rediit et cum ea assidue copulavit. 

He returned to the young woman and had repeated sex with her.

Tunc demum cum matre coiit. 

Then at last he had sex with her mother.

Postridie mulieres se gravidas esse senserunt.

The next day the women realized they were pregnant.

p. 239

Ex lapide membrum virile finxit.

He made a penis from the stone.

(in this variant, Coyote uses a penis made of blue stone to smash the vaginal teeth, instead of the scraper made of elk-horn)

Cum domum veniret vaginalium dentium crepitum audivit.

When he came to the house, he heard the sound of vaginal teeth crunching.

Inserto membro quod fictum erat, omnes dentes perrupit. 

After he inserted the penis that had been made (from the stone), he broke all the (vaginal) teeth.

Tum spinis vulvam vulneravit.

Then he hurt the vulva with the thorns (from the rosebush).

Here we go!

 Whoo-hoo!