Ritual songs

Clara Santi, Gau Sikuanga

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I will  to sing to the Toucan

Now  I am the GauToucan’s Wife

Yes, I am the Tucan’s Woman

I am the Gau Toucan’s Woman

From a distant community

Inside the mountain it looks green

I am standing inside the mountain

The Gau Toucan cries out

When he stands on the high branch

Looking out at each mountain

When he sings I will cry out [answering him]

“[I am] Your Santi Spirit Woman”

.Just standing I stand

While he stands there eating fruits

I am the woman who  stands

Looking up,

Gau Tucan’s wife

Looking from the point of his beak

Looking at the point of his beak

He is the toucan who cries out

While looks at every person.

When he calls his woman

I am the woman who stands calling out (an answer).

Gaouuuu Toucan, Gaou Toucan

When he eats shiwa fruit rolling it in his beak.
I am the woman who is standing there
When he rolls a fruit in his beak and drops it while feeding
I am the woman who stands there eating that fruit, savoring it in my mouth.
From the top of the cliff on the banks of the Napo River
GauSicuanga
Where green wallis fruits spill from where he stands 

I stand calling him
The woman who stands whistling
Santi spirit strength woman 
GauSicuanga
I am the woman who stands smelling the beautifully liquefied drips from the fruit he eats 
Gaou sikuanga, gaousikuanga! 
When he eats shiwa fruits
When he stands crying out his call
I am the human woman who stands watching
When the GauTucan drips liquid from the point of his beak
I am the woman who stands showing don Tomas how to catch it saying  “Just drink it”! 

 

 

Sikuangatami kantangarauni
Kunaga gau sikuanga warmimi ani
Sikuanga warmi maani
Gaouuuu sikuanga warmi maani
Karu llaktamanda
Urkui Verdella rikurishka
Urkuimi shayaunimarilla
Gaouuu sikuangalla kaparisha
Pay auyaramai shayarisha
Karan urkumanrikushalla
Kaparisha pai kantaushkai…………………
Kanbak Santi warmi supaiga
Shayaunilla shayaunimi
Paimi muyuta mikusha shayaushkai
Shayak warmi maňarin
Jawaman rikusha
Gausikuanga warmiga
Pay kirupundai rikusha
Paiwakiru pundata rikusha
Paiga sikuanga kaparisha
Pay karan runama rikusha
Paibak warmita kayaushkai
Ñuka kaparisha shayakwarmi maňarin……….
Gauuusikuanga, GauSikuanga
Pai muyuta chiwi muyuta amulisha
mikushkai
Shayakwarmimay(ň)arin…………………
Pay muyu mikushka muyuta amulish
pai ichachijpi
Amulisha chi muyutamikushashayakwarmimay(ň)arin……………………………
Napo yaku urkupundai…………………………
Gausikuanga ma ňarin
Llullu ruya walisllata llirishkai
payshayaushkai
Ñukashayarishapaitakayasha
Silvashashayakwarmimay(ň)arin
Santiwarmisupaiga
GauSikuanga
Paibaupishutaasumac yakuyasha
Muktishashayak warmimayarin..………
GauSikuanga, Gauusikuanga
Paishiwimuyutamikusha
Pay kaparishashayaushkai
Rikushashayakruna
warmimay(ň)arin
PaikirupundamandaGau
Sikuangayakushuyurishkata
Don Tomas apishaupinguillanishapaitarikuchisha
shayakwarmimayarin

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Amazonian Kichwa songs