Yapa

Book 1 – The Beginning

1	The moon be our guardian,
2	And Great spirit.
3	The moon lights the land,
4	And reveals the song lines.
5	He tells us the path and the way.
6	He reminds us of the great stories,
7	Of life, of death and return.
8	He teaches us to hunt in darkness;
9	He shows us to hunt in great light;
10	He comforts the ill and sick;
11	He accompanies the ancestors;
12	He dances with us in ceremony;
13	He laughs with us at camp;
14	He visits each of the great constellations;
15	He celebrates a new born of the family;
16	He comforts us in our sorrow;
17	He reveals the truth;
18	He never lies;
19	He is a great guardian of dreaming.
20	To count the arrival of moon by full face,
21	Is to count a cycle.
22	There be two hundred and thirty five cycle of the moon,
23	To nineteen cycles of seasons as one Generation,
24	And six thousand nine hundred and forty days.
25	This be the sixth knowledge,
26	And the knowledge of elders of ceremony.
27	This is why the ancients sung:
28	"Honor (us) Moon; Reveal (to us) Moon"