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,
evrínolöa là-za l-agúi,
tūbíntüli Mayelléssau limláreymïka,
qitaíviläili sánt-Layláefäsa,
Íat u Nijíen imiáiläā.
Gúšenilïī~ö,
žanèilöō l-aipiénolöō,
latílï væmí latílïla
Mayelléssüli wémmaläā.
Hàlniřai vattéymë,
yár Íat-öy saikáymï,
Nijíen mihéleymï,
háltolöō essláj,
ó Mayelléss vélalöa
sivárajej vattéysï.
Wémmymï kél Íatui,
yénto lúavymï néll-it,
Nijíen wodénilöa-nó,
Mayellésseu álolöa~ö,
arè~ï háltylï şiaŋvímalohöbī,
şá humàidivïe Ttélleš,
vattéysïs u yimyáysïs,
kájguväe tüe nṍ Nijíenui,
láx ézze madekánäsa fanbíelüa.
Yár Íat öi në-woláimäto,
Ttélleš üe elháltovöe,
mra-Mayelléss ağuárolöe,
yénto lókysïs imiáväe,
láx a-řèi wáryvëša l-ipráyvëša,
limláreyvëša visôjuyvïske.
Ttélleš aríāvöe,
yént arm-Árya n-ávroj aryèsï,
arè mra-mávan
lók-onód asénnorëške,
lé Ttélleda, lé Minàda.
Şá lók-Ttélle su'Måřenovöa,
ànua mayezzéska Avàtarade,
čü yonéy šánye jæ-řèi-n,
Minàde afterí p-aĥásvevïa,
qincái-pi töi kájguvüa,
ošánaskali p-áfteguvöa.
Íat míyalüa ínati,
Minàš čéttinaväe,
vót úşe čü hàčřei~nníaysï,
savéysï l-isušíysï l-éyniysï,
wáxi téy ežúzeymïfla víšnalöa,
sánt-Layláefästa,
láx ollwéläe essláj,
imiáivüa Vosálaväi,
šêlpħysï šányeye ezéa.
Saikáymï antámato Íačřoy
il Vosálaväi so'Vosávüa,
töi akádavüa li wodénivöa,
fánğenovöa Atreàida,
Lápesäs nésmelïe Vosálaväile,
Weñélläs 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
sémel ína xás înórol antátti.
Waméyovöa lešòy u šusàoj,
amàrevüa ta aşínqišlï Lápesäsa,
amàrevüa ta Eršiàšlï Ualéjäsa,
Háyanüli Weñéläsa l-Énæřesäsa dél-mávanüli,
yáre në-tasívïa ti.
Asmól Vosálaväi kàtlivüa,
ajól ü wabéyovöa eláāwoj,
u livívüa yuahàymïsla Úlaslaša,
ñeináymïsla lumínäse l-ahráymïsla Wèrmenäse,
ínūpiymïsla Čàsæřäse l-attú-Šanéffäse.
Şianiánläi míntavïa lélos Lápesäsa,
sūtévovöa Ualéjäsle l-Énæřesäse,
Vosálaväi tasívïa~nóroleu,
doklóineu, láxa jæ-řài vyáşymï,
li lẽmíneu, láx almálolöa ézze madekánäsa.
Vosálaväi ásew ànval sūtévöndo,
enájovöa doklóineu,
enájovöa lẽmíneu,
înórolau d-jæ-řài~kálna,
jará töi akádavüa
l-öi wodénivöa.
Şá akáāläe tüe Hřænăuveštij,
Samòjah jæ-řèi ro-tħànği,
Vosálaväi şianiánavüa nè-su.
Vosálaväi töi akádavüa ínati,
l-alláe Hřænăuvešijäslu ásew~ï,
ažéo Hřænăuveštij o-řài~řèy waşíntymïs,
àyo-si, tàyo mro-Vosálaväide,
rêğenavüa lókysï, vattívve,
Xáklavüa töi Vamaltéštij,
Hřænăuveštij o-řài orm-anévastäs,
il antévinäs ahíçalöe anávastäse,
néililïe sa, léčilïe iřèlde.
Eŝétilïe Ttéllešlä,
ontíkymïs, séy-öy pólï,
se~sátymï d-jæ-řài féy,
eşválymï l-ezzáklasymï,
yár váwe pólï Xáklay,
sevéno jæ-řèi ğačénysï.
Míyalüa Íat ínat,
wodénilöe vánæšii,
féš véklassaläe,
ihtíhyolïe-nó,
dë sábašu, dëm írisäso,
s-asálveläe vánæšiida,
mro-haliřêiš aŝeìrieväe.
Samòjah otélüa ašànymï,
haliřêiše d-jæ-řài~řèy,
li Vamaltéštij amàreläe lókysïstye,
ñè š-afílivaëini,
ñè š-xallávaëini.
Amàreläe haliřêiša,
tasílïe ša Eàmnayüli,
tasílïe ša Atreàili,
Lemàes líelüa ŝynïstye,
Saljèrnes máitalüa ŝynïstye,
yonéy Vamaltéštij háromaläe,
míjonaviide astáltehënnī,
délĥoymï d-jæ-řài-n ôřèy délĥoymï,
haliřêi që haliřêi.
Alwáš ṍ Válaväidi jæ-řèi limítymï,
halniřêiša amàreläe ínati,
Mayelléss xallálöa ŝynïstye,
Isiinàne déllivïa ŝynïste,
Mojráŝ halniřêiša ñà xalláhöbī,
Loşéyron añél halniřêiše líelüa~řèy .
Yonéy pólï Vamaltéštijäsi d-jæ-řèi-n âvíş,
amàreläe ínat u vírame,
elájmašlï tótazde~vénysïzde l-átlasiši,
tasílïe halniřêiše xási téy,
se Wálleš xallávöe ŝynïstye,
se êkvoläs ŝynïste askúnilïe,
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Vosálaväi halniřêiše~řèy líevüa,
xás Árya ŝynïste ošíīvüa.
Xallálöe halniřêiša féy,
čyonéy-sa téy d-atkivólüa,
halniřêi úşe xási vélavöa,
sağènysï se hàčřei,
amàreläe nóll-ip ést,
váwe xallávaëini pa.
Anólïfa Alåtau čü-se~víş öd-jæ-řài,
otlépaysïte amàrevaide aşvíelaläe,
emódelïe Okàlemäse l-Askénteu,
laúlymïsla li fóŋgymïsla írisäse,
watyóymïste iàylöe,
emódelïe Atreàida l-Itíntada,
Saljèrneseu li Lemàeseu, Mojráŝeu li Loşéyroneu,
Mayelléssau l-Isiinànede arkénilïe,
Wàlleš u Yalaŝàyäs s-iriénaläe,
Vosálaväi l-Árya déllivïī~ö.
"Tárei vrémaymï kéle ŝi-Válaväide,
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nadóerï ayxáumiu li tàĥārï dë~pénumou,
antàřïšeu-sò sy-Nàřa Válaväide jàrlonnysï,
arèn-öy Veşíŗa Sákšavilävode mihéleysï,
şáut-öy mihélej epáley lláte Nattánni."
Vamaltéštijäsi~řèniŝ ésloylïa sílïfla,
sós~üálilïe, në-tasílïe sílïfla,
sós amàreläe, yáre téy sáŋsā lásvelöe,
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sáy lé čìnevada emóderïšte-vé,
sáy lé lók-éstau emóderïšte-vé,
Léčilïe 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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Aurúmii Hřænăuvezzi,
háltei li vattéi mèitvevïa,
në-Savélüa síx, čyonéy féy,
lánt néilihäbī, sínet iàyhöbī,
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xási Vosálaväi síko-pi~šíevöa,
yénto Solíjentäsa hàčřei limítymïsfa,
niséylï sínet limlàreymï.
Vásovöa Solíjentäse tótesla,
sa mènyelïa làl úşamio šányla,
fesávrusïs yaràsaš aŝèreväe,
tótes hèfiŋřai qúşa, qúşa tótes, mro-Solíjentäsa akíkalöa Mayelléss,
hámnajäse jæ-řài vàrymïs,
il ajól aúzolöe,
Jàsmi-năuveštau,
Eurúĥeade,
Šanná-wìřau.
"Amàrēmï Ttélleda màitysïye,
láxa venèli amínomöto,
waniín làinyüohe latívïše,
oşilléinamätotlë.
Veréomï Ttélle-venèdo,
àll-os ilóytolïšeu,
yáre limánysï otévüa-ví-n.
Náttamï Ttélle-venèda,
sú čü nóll Sôjelinade ójirïšte,
láxa séva l-úşa lumíneu líemäto,
ajól mávan antàřišeu náttajeu.
Úşa lumín antàřišeu tlyrï,
yár úşa vélaröške-vé šány,
sílï, 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,
Ñeináeštijäsi xalláröške ŝi-haliřêiša."
Pólï Vamaltéštijäsi tildévüa Hřænăuvezzi,
mro-Solíjentäslu Áyssa eítevïa,
işmátraşăo je-sénnau.
Sójdel ü yaràsaš inóaïe,
jará jæ-řài fesálï šány,
Vosálaväi Aurúmiida néilivïa,
léčivïa réj siltíysïye~pátida.
Vamaltéštij vélaröšte šánys,
sówereu jæ-řài-n ôřèy,
iténieläe ivaréj,
yáre síl so'në-Savélüa~řèniŝau,
o-řài ézze mátravelëide,
háita nóll væsíysïte haliřêide,
vélavöa délĥysï Šannáustüli.
Álakoš jalákysïs atvóilaväe,
Vamaltéštij mínteymïs otéläe,
d-imiáiläe màkkomağëlašë,
fesávï néll-iš ü latémïést alèivïe,
váwe teòtlysïye haliřêida afílivay.