LENAPE Epic: The MAALAM AARUM

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.

(Genesis 1 v1)

1. Sayewi talli wemiguma wokgetaki,

And the earth was without form and void;

and darkness was upon the face of the deep;
and the spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.

2. Hackung kwelik owanaku wak yutali Kitanitowit-essop.

And God Said, "Let their be light."
And there was light."

3. Sayewis hallemiwis nolemiwi elemamik Kitanitowit-essop.

4. Sohawalawak kwelik hakik owak [read, woak] awasagamak.

And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lessor light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (Genesis 1 v17)
5. Sohalawak gishuk nipahum alankwak

..to give light onto the earth: and to rule over the day and the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw it was good. (Genesis 1 v17-18)
6. Wemi-sohalawak yulikyuchaan.

(At this stanza I realized the Bible had the correct English version of the pictographs. So I stopped translating from Lenape (Old Norse) to English. Viewers are encouraged to make their own comparison between the pictograph and an English Bible.)