The Lore of the Ancients

Maybe it's not appropriate to put this here before I explain the history and culture of my conworld (costructed world) and its inhabitants although this is kind of history. Nevertheless, this is the largest complete text I've ever translated into Laefèvæšii and it's the only way for you to get an impression of my language.

The Lore of the Ancients

Once, in the darkness of night,
the imperceivable magic,

undefinable and all-existing,

merged to itself and then,

in a mighty spurt of the light,

in a storm of the basic elements,

time and space began to exist.


They were weaving,

writhing and shading,

one through another
they were hurrying in the light.

They were young,

but time is unstoppable,

space is endless,

they were ageing together,

just the light stayed

vividly young.

Hurrying beside time,
but detached from him,

the space began to form,

it wished for light,

because the old one had lost,

so stars starts to shine,

young and cheerful,

they were swimming over the space,
which was stretching without frontiers.

But time doesn't stop,

the stars aged,

their light veiled,

but new ones were born,
which were bigger and fairer,

mightier than those before.


The stars were dying,

but their death isn't real,

because their end,

a new beginning means,
for a star, for a world.


And so a new star was born,

amid the boundlessness of the universe,

but nevertheless, she wasn't alone,

a worlds' clump was circling her,
it was twirling around her,
accompanying her in the emptiness.

Time ran onward,

the worlds changed,
but just one was different,
green and blue and white,

here something extraordinary happened,
from the basic elements,
which unified together,

the life was formed,

aware of itself.


Unstoppable is the flow of time,

and the life lived,
developed an formed,

it conquered the water,

oceans were effervescing of life,

seas and lakes,

rivers and brooks,

everywhere was full of it.


But the waters of the world are limited,

the space ran out,

life had nowhere to spread,

and so it began to wonder,

where some space would be.


It was looking left and right,
it searched in the deepnesses of oceans,
it searched in the pools of rivers,
in the golfs of seas,
in the hidden ends of lakes,

but it didn't find it.


The life almost gave up,

but then it looked up,

and it saw wide plains,

high tops and narrow valleys,
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dry deserts and small islands.


The jolliness spilled over the oceans,

it spread into the rivers and lakes,
the life found space,

land, which was empty,
and air, which seemed without borders.


The life spread rapidly,

land was conquered,
air was conquered,

there was a world of space,

life was developing again,

it was forming again.


And so the Ancients evolved,

the wood was their home,

the life was rejoicing in them.


The life was developing onward,

and also in the Ancients had,

soon the Ancients weren't unique any more,

from them, from their life,
new one, younger, began,

their name was the Elves,

the Ancients were their teachers,
and the disciples passed the teachers,

they left teachers, they went away.


They were looking into the stars,

curious, what that is,

everything was strange to them,

unknown and nameless,

but how to name this,

a great snag was.

The time ran onwards,

they formed a language,

they named everything,

they started to talk,
with plants, with animals,
they taught them language,
their secrets were vanishing.

The wood was known,

no secrets were left,

and the Elves were searched for new,

to discover them,

to reveal them.


They were looking for secrets,

they found them in the stone,

they found them in the water,

the air had its own,
the earth was hiding its own,
but the Elves were insisting,
patience they had learned,

hidden wasn't hidden any more,

secret not secret.


The desire in knowledge was strong,

for secrets they kept looking,

the light revealed its ones,

the darkness didn't shadowed its owns,
the wood had already revealed its secrets,

the metal now had no secrets.


But this wasn't enough for the Elves,
they were searching on and back,
in all possible directions and things,
they found some more secrets,

the spirits revealed theirs to them,

the bodies didn't shrouded theirs from them,

the life had no secrets any more,

even the death didn't keep its owns.


All secrets were revealed,

yet something bothered them,

one secret has been left,

unreachable it was to them,

they were looking for a way to it,
how would they reveal it.


But some day they had enough,

enough of unsuccessful searching,

they asked trees and grass,
flying and walking animals,
creeping ones weren't forgotten,
they asked water and fire,

earth and air, wood and metal,
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light and darkness weren't left down,
spirits and bodies answered them,

life and death didn't hide.


"Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge,

hear the wise and consult with the ignorant,
let your book of knowledge is always open,
because the art of realizing is endless,

like is endlessly far also the perfection."


To the Elves the answer didn't tell

what they wanted, they didn't find

what they were looking for, but something they found,
who they need to ask for an advice,

who they need to ask for a new ways.


They went to the Ancient-woman,

her name has already been forgotten,

but the Ancestress they named her,

how many years she has, no one knew,

the eyes were deceiving, the feelings were unreliable.


Ancestress Ancient-woman,

age and youth she was uniting,

she knew nothing, but yet everything,

eyesight had left her, voice had forgotten her,

even the life was barely holding on her,
but minds she was strong,

inner voice was powerful.


She unified the minds of all,

she united them into a single one,

any kind of frontiers disappeared,

all were one, one was all,

their minds filled with light,

it was countless colours,

and then they heard,

the Lore of the Ancients,

the Ancestress' prophecy,

the Prophecy of the future.

"Look for a bright star,

which shines in a tail,

among six others,
it glares the most.


Follow the Star-tail,

she must run in front of you,

but captured she mustn't become.


Chase the Star-tail,

but when you come to a plateau,

which has twelve and one top,
then let the chase be over.


One top let yours be,

but one must stay alone,

the one, which surrendered is by a Sky-mirror.


When gods have their twelve names,

and twelve kings sits aside their queens,

then the sky-mirror top opens,

and let the Song of twelve is united.

And the Stone of Ancestors then,

when the Song of twelve is sung,

its secrets reveals to the High-ones."


The Ancient-woman said this to the Elves,
in their minds the song was echoing,

its meaning unrealised.


Suddenly the frontiers were back,

all were one again,

life left the Ancestress,
she went to the invisible side.


The Elves were left alone,

help was no more,

they were asking around,

but no one knew the answer,
they were without understanding,
the key to the last secret,
remind hidden in the prophecy.


Solutions different appeared,
the Elves were divided,
thirteen groups were created,

each of them a different way chose,

how to reveal the last secret.

Ars Iasmíŋ Hřænăuveštijäsa

Eřænăovoj, Isiinàneli Itàde,
Yelverés ânóhoymï,
irotórymï l-otoyowókymï,
evr
ínolöa là-za l-agúi,
bíntüli Mayelléssau limláreymïka,
qitaíviläili sánt-Layláefäsa,
Íat u Nijíen imiáiläā.

Gúšenilïī~ö,
žanèilöō l-aipiénolöō,
lat
ílï væmí latílïla

Mayelléssüli wémmaläā.


H
àlniřai vattéymë,

yár Íat-öy saikáymï,

Nij
íen mihéleymï,

ltolöō essláj,
ó Mayelléss vélalöa
sivárajej vattéysï.

Wémmymï kél Íatui,
nto lúavymï néll-it,

Nijíen wodénilöa-nó,
Mayell
ésseu álolöa~ö,

ar
è~ï háltylï şiaŋvímalohöbī,

şá
humàidivïe Ttélleš,

vatt
éysïs u yimyáysïs,

jguväe tüe nṍ Nijíenui,
x ézze madekánäsa fanbíelüa.

Y
ár Íat öi në-woláimäto,

Tt
élleš üe elháltovöe,

mra-Mayell
éss ağuárolöe,
nto lókysïs imiáväe,
x a-řèi wáryvëša l-ipráyvëša,

limláreyvëša visôjuyvïske.

Tt
élleš aríāvöe,

y
ént arm-Árya n-ávroj aryèsï,

ar
è mra-mávan

k-onód asénnorëške,
Ttélleda, lé Minàda.

Şá lók-Ttélle su'Måřenovöa,
ànua mayezzéska Avàtarade,
čü
yonéy šánye jæ-řèi-n,
Minàde afterí p-aĥásvevïa,
qinc
ái-pi töi kájguvüa,
ánaskali p-áfteguvöa.

Íat míyalüa ínati,
Minàš čéttinaväe,
t úşe čü hàčřei~nníaysï,
sav
éysï l-isušíysï l-éyniysï,
xi téy ežúzeymïfla víšnalöa,
s
ánt-Layláefästa,

x ollwéläe essláj,

imiáivüa Vosálaväi,
šêlpħysï šányeye ezéa.

Saikáymï antámato Íačřoy
il Vosálaväi so'Vosávüa,
töi akádavüa li wodénivöa,
fánğenovöa Atreàida,
L
ápesäs nésmelïe Vosálaväile,

We
ñélläs il Énæřesäs,
Ualéjäs il Asámiš,
ájpaj-ti antámato~kálna.

Atreàiš Minàde čü lítysïs,
înórolau do-naçénalüa,
Vosálaväi töi líelavüa-n anó rálgovay,
tújej iténievüa~ï,nó
s
émel ína xás înórol antátti.


Wam
éyovöa lešòy u šusàoj,

am
àrevüa ta aşínqišlï Lápesäsa,
amàrevüa ta Eršiàšlï Ualéjäsa,
H
áyanüli Weñéläsa l-Énæřesäsa dél-mávanüli,

re në-tasívïa ti.


Asm
ól Vosálaväi kàtlivüa,
ajól ü wabéyovöa eláāwoj,
u livívüa yuahàymïsla Úlaslaša,
ñ
eináymïsla lumínäse l-ahráymïsla Wèrmenäse,
ínūpiymïsla Čàsæřäse l-attú-Šanéffäse.

Ş
ianiánläi míntavïa lélos Lápesäsa,

sūtévovöa Ualéjäsle l-Énæřesäse,

Vosálaväi tasívïa~nóroleu,

dokl
óineu, láxa jæ-řài vyáşymï,
li lmíneu, láx almálolöa ézze madekánäsa.

Vos
álaväi ásew ànval sūtévöndo,

en
ájovöa doklóineu,
enájovöa lẽmíneu,
înórolau d-jæ-řài~kálna,
jará töi akádavüa
l-öi wodénivöa.

Şá akáāläe tüe Hřænăuveštij,
Samòjah jæ-řèi ro-tħànği,
Vos
álaväi şianiánavüa nè-su.

Vosálaväi töi akádavüa ínati,
l-alláe Hřænăuvešijäslu ásew~ï,
éo Hřænăuveštij o-řài~řèy waşíntymïs,
àyo-si, tàyo mro-Vosálaväide,

rêğenavüa lókysï, vattívve,

X
áklavüa töi Vamaltéštij,

Hřænăuveštij o-řài orm-anévastäs,
il antévinäs ahíçalöe anávastäse,
néililïe sa, léčilïe iřèlde.


E
ŝétilïe Ttéllešlä,

ont
íkymïs, séy-öy pólï,

se~sátymï d-jæ-řài féy,

eşválymï l-ezzáklasymï,

yár váwe pólï Xáklay,

sev
éno jæ-řèi ğačénysï.

Míyalüa Íat ínat,
wodénilöe vánæšii,
š véklassaläe,
ihtíhyolïe-nó,
sábašu, dëm írisäso,
s-asálveläe vánæšiida,
mro-hali
řêiš aŝeìrieväe.

Samòjah otélüa ašànymï,
haliřêiše d-jæ-řài~řèy,
li Vamaltéštij amàreläe lókysïstye,
ñè š-afílivaëini,
ñè š-xallávaëini.

Am
àreläe haliřêiša,

tasílïe ša Eàmnayüli,
tasílïe ša Atreàili,
Lemàes líelüa ŝynïstye,
Salj
èrnes máitalüa ŝynïstye,

yon
éy Vamaltéštij háromaläe,
jonaviide astáltehënnī,
délĥoymï d-jæ-řài-n ôřèy délĥoymï,
haliřêi që haliřêi.

Alw
áš ṍ Válaväidi jæ-řèi limítymï,
halniřêiša amàreläe ínati,
Mayell
éss xallálöa ŝynïstye,
Isiinàne déllivïa ŝynïste,
Mojr
áŝ halniřêiša ñà xalláhöbī,

Loşéyron añél halniřêiše líelüa~řèy .

Yon
éy pólï Vamaltéštijäsi d-jæ-řèi-n âvíş,

am
àreläe ínat u vírame,

el
ájmašlï tótazde~vénysïzde l-átlasiši,
tasílïe halniřêiše xási téy,
se W
álleš xallávöe ŝynïstye,

se
êkvoläs ŝynïste askúnilïe,

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Vos
álaväi halniřêiše~řèy líevüa,
s Árya ŝynïste ošíīvüa.

Xallálöe halniřêiša féy,
čyon
éy-sa téy d-atkivólüa,
halniřêi úşe xási vélavöa,
sa
ğènysï se hàčřei,

am
àreläe nóll-ip ést,

we xallávaëini pa.


An
ólïfa Alåtau čü-se~víş öd-jæ-řài,

otl
épaysïte amàrevaide aşvíelaläe,

em
ódelïe Okàlemäse l-Askénteu,

la
úlymïsla li fóŋgymïsla írisäse,

waty
óymïste iàylöe,

em
ódelïe Atreàida l-Itíntada,
Saljèrneseu li Lemàeseu, Mojráŝeu li Loşéyroneu,
Mayelléssau l-Isiinànede arkénilïe,
W
àlleš u Yalaŝàyäs s-iriénaläe,

Vos
álaväi l-Árya déllivïī~ö.


"T
árei vrémaymï kéle ŝi-Válaväide,
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nadóerï ayxáumiu li tàĥārï dë~pénumou,
antàřïšeu-sò sy-Nàřa Válaväide jàrlonnysï,
ar
èn-öy Veşíŗa Sákšavilävode mihéleysï,

şá
ut-öy mihélej epáley lláte Nattánni.
"

Vamalt
éštijäsi~řèniŝ ésloylïa sílïfla,

sálilïe, në-tasílïe sílïfla,
s amàreläe, yáre téy sáŋsā lásvelöe,
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y lé čìnevada emóderïšte-vé,

y lé lók-éstau emóderïšte-vé,


L
éčilïe čë Hřænăuvezzido,
mje-Xáklass áse ñà iàyöntio,
yonéy Aurúmii pa Xáklaläe,
eróše síl ëne-Savélüa, kámie líerëške,
Váttvaš okómovöe, îmíošteš otyaltáysïs.
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Aur
úmii Hřænăuvezzi,

ltei li vattéi mèitvevïa,
në-Savélüa síx, čyonéy féy,
nt néilihäbī, sínet iàyhöbī,
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si Vosálaväi síko-pi~šíevöa,
yénto Solíjentäsa hàčřei limítymïsfa,
niséylï sínet limlàreymï.

V
ásovöa Solíjentäse tótesla,

sa m
ènyelïa làl úşamio šányla,

fes
ávrusïs yaràsaš aŝèreväe,

tes hèfiŋřai qúşa, qúşa tótes, mro-Solíjentäsa akíkalöa Mayelléss,
mnajäse jæ-řài vàrymïs,
il ajól aúzolöe,
smi-năuveštau,

Eurúĥeade,
Šanná-wìřau.

"Am
àrēmï Ttélleda màitysïye,
xa venèli amínomöto,
wani
ín làinyüohe latívïše,

illéinamätotlë.


Ver
éomï Ttélle-venèdo,
àll-os ilóytolïšeu,
re limánysï otévüa-ví-n.

Náttamï Ttélle-venèda,
čü nóll Sôjelinade ójirïšte,
xa séva l-úşa lumíneu líemäto,
aj
ól mávan antàřišeu náttajeu.


Úş
a lumín antàřišeu tlyrï,

r úşa vélaröške-vé šány,

lï, láx-öy vénaymï dë Şórol-Alêidu.
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Sú Pajèxäs iŝ-Xáklassevïvase líerëšte,
li Pajèxevïva žalérëške kél iŝ-Elàbaŝeši,
ajól ârlónoröške Şórol-Alêymï lumín,
il ollwéřïšeu Áyssa sévačëynïs.

Il Eamúrunt ajól,
isút Áyssa sévačëynïs-öy ayákysï,
Ñ
eináeštijäsi xalláröške ŝi-haliřêiša.
"

Pólï Vamaltéštijäsi tildévüa Hřænăuvezzi,
mro-Solíjentäslu Áyssa eítevïa,
işmátraşăo je-sénnau.

S
ójdel ü yaràsaš inóaïe,
jará jæ-řài fesálï šány,
Vos
álaväi Aurúmiida néilivïa,

čivïa réj siltíysïye~pátida.

Vamalt
éštij vélaröšte šánys,

wereu jæ-řài-n ôřèy,
iténieläe ivaréj,
yáre síl so'në-Savélüa~řèniŝau,
o-řài ézze mátravelëide,
ita nóll væsíysïte haliřêide,

lavöa délĥysï Šannáustüli.


Á
lakoš jalákysïs atvóilaväe,

Vamalt
éštij mínteymïs otéläe,
d-imiáiläe màkkomağëlašë,
fesávï néll-iš ü latémïést alèivïe,
we teòtlysïye haliřêida afílivay.