Шаман [Shaman] [English translation]

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Шаман [Shaman] [English translation]

I darned skins with a curved needle,

Sun above the lake

Swam in fog like fresh blood

In blue milk.

Wolves cry beyond a distant knoll -

Seems it'll be autumn soon.

Laikas* at the campsite echo their howl,

The antlers on the deer are red.

He's a witch, a sorcerer, a shaman, he is cursed

In the three worlds by his own hand.

Stones dance under his foot

Or is it the tambourine in my chest?

Soon there'll be snow, soon there'll be ice, soon I'll be hunting

A deer with seven antlers.

Give me seven locks from your braid, maiden -

Oh, cut them without looking,

Weave me a bowstring!

As transparent cold blew from the North

He spoke the words:

"Like earth in winter won't remember the sun,

So I too won't remember him".

I smoked fish with tutsan and clover

Sing, subdue-grass!*

With an arrow, i drew symbols upon it

Oh, with a red-hot arrow

Bearing a forbidden name!

You'll forget one sunset

Then the next one,

Dogs will finish the fish

Mixing bones with ashes.

Days are shorter than nights,

And my braid is growing long,

And laikas are straining their chains

And sky is in their eyes.

Laikas sense a trail

Bloody like spindle tree flowers,

And once more a wild deer

Is racing towards crimson dawn.

Again he dissolves

In a fog that's sticky like blood,

And there's sun in between

In between seven blood-red antlers!

Is it you my dogs are chasing, shaman,

Towards winter?

Have you not betrayed yourself,

With a bow and a bowstring?

Before the night fog falls

Upon snowy hills

I need to find a witch-deer

Oh, the fool!

If only i could remember his forbidden name

The shaman would turn back into himself again,

That name is hidden between his seven antlers.

He will again stand before me,

Like a leaf before grass!*

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