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).