Jaguar Brings Fire, 1992

I go after it on the earth,
Panther boy they call me,
                    I go after it.
With dark mouth blood lying under my soles,
With dark mouth blood making a black strip between my toes
                    I go after it.
With mouth blood making stripes on me,
                    I go after it.
With mouth blood making stripes running out from each other on my face,
                    I go after it.

—"Song of the Deer Company"
by Pliny Earle Goddard
from from Myths and Tales of the San Carlos Apache,
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol 24, pt 1, 1918

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