The Even mythological fairy tale ‘Dyor asatkar’
During the expedition work aimed at recording unique Even folklore material, there was a meeting with Elena Innokentyevna Tarabukina..
Elena Innokentyevna Tarabukina is an Evenk from the Berezovsky national (nomadic) nasleg (a settlement), a storyteller of the Even folklore tradition. Her repertoire includes the mythological fairy tale "Der asatkan" (Two Girls) with a song insert.
Дёр асаткар
Дёр асаткар ны хуркэр нян нөӈилтын гу янилтын гу гөн «Хондиня». Хонданике гөн тек аси гяй кэдэкэн гөнни6 «Хөргэлры мут бэкэлэч буюснэгэлры». Нудды. Экун ок та эсни өмэндэлэ местала биддөтты. Эвидяннетты. Хякитала имыддыкынила имсаккын нэссөтты, тарав демкадиллөтадамыр чукачар, кукэки ирак-тарак. Нян бэидмир гөнни, хуркэр бэкэлда, бидэнритэн, бидэнритэн.
Кукэки, оӈалган тарак. Би хөнтэв гөндиддэм тарак, хөнтэв нимкам. Тек хөнтэв укчэндэку аич. Тарав ундиддэку. Оӈалган, кукэки.
Кукаки тек яддип гөнни.
Хөллөдидянрөтты,
нулгэчэддыкытын
Икэллөтты гядмар:
Аддагану, кукулэчэн
Адагагу, кулэчэн
Tingilin, tingilin, tingilin
Хурдэкур гөлдэмэтты, уӈыч, асаткар хөнтэл одавур, тачин икэнмэй, икэндир. Чукачакар уӈэдилры. Оӈалгын, кукэки нян гөнни, ноӈартан янгатын асаткар дэгсыддётты гяв тэвтэв, гяв яв хякитала бивэттын тала уӈы якав нэку дэвэнӈит, дэвэнӈиту олгитча, олгитчөттын, тэвтэв нян да олгитчөтты. Тарак дэгил асаткаӈурду эмувэттэ. Гя дэвэвнӈиту эмувэттэн, гядмыр нян уӈу тэвтыв. Дебэссон бивэтты. Асаткар мэнкэр уннөтты, буюсөтты, өлики, ирэк тарак як бэйчин тарак бисни, олрав да эмувэтты. Бюуюссил асаткар тарак. Нян унрын яддотты, икэдды, бэйнюн эдэвур бис гян гөндиддын.
Адданагу иллачан
Tingilin, tingilin, tingilin
Адданагу иллачан
Tingilin, tingilin, tingilin.
Кукэкикэн икэддэн, икэдэн, икэлэн. Хөнтэв гэлэтнэгэлры гөнни гад. Ноӈартан илэ төру мудаккотты, дэгэчөтты. Аявмачилры. Кукэкив аявалры нян яв оӈалгыв. Асаткар унгэн тар кукэкиду опчаӈалри хаӈанры, тэтигэр хаӈары нодыв. Кукэки, оӈалнанду, кукэкиду дёридюр гя гяду, гяду хо ноду хаӈанры.
Тек дэгэчиддэ, тек асаткар хаӈанчадитан.
Тар нян оддам.
Two Girls
Two girls and boys, either their brothers or whoever, say 'It's boring'. They are bored, so the second girl friend says 'Let's go, we need to hunt'. They were wandering. They visited everywhere in one place, they didn't stay long. They were playing. They put their catch on the tree stand, and the birds, the jay, all sorts of birds were thinking. Then one says 'The boys are separate from us'. So they were, they were. The jay and the nutcracker are. I started telling another story. Now I'll tell you another. Once again. Nutcracker, jay.
The jay said what we'll do now. That's how they are, they wander. And she started singing:
Flies around, jay
Flies around, jay
Tingilin, tingilin, tingilin.
They were going to leave, then the girls wanted to become different, that's how you have to sing, they sing. The birds were thinking. The nutcracker, the jay then said why they constantly fly, girls. They (the jay and the nutcracker) brought dried mushrooms and berries to the neku - storehouse. They dried them. One brought a berry, the other brought mushrooms. They pretended to eat. The girls themselves hunted squirrels, hunted everything, caught fish. The girls were good hunters. So they were, they sang, they were not married, said the other.
The land flies around Il
Tingilin, tingilin, tingilin
The land flies around Il
Tingilin, tingilin, tingilin.
The jay sang, sings, a singer. Another bird says let's look for others. What lands do they fly to? They fell in love with each other. The jay fell in love with one girl, the nutcracker fell in love with another.
The girls sewed the jay some items and a beautiful coat-caftan. And they also sewed a beautiful outfit for the cedar tree. And since then they have been flying in these beautiful outfits.
That's all.
Recording – Vitaly Vitalyevich Ivanov,
junior researcher at
International Research Laboratory “Linguistic Ecology of the Arctic”, NEFU
Transcript – Vinokurova A.A.,
PhD in Philology,
Head of the Department of Northern Philology, Institute of Linguistics and History of M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern of Russian Federation
Consultant – Nesterova E.V.,
PhD in Philology,
Junior Researcher of Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences