A Navajo Benedictory Chant

I found this chant in a book of Native American Poetry. The underlying music is me singing,"Conditor alme siderum"(Creator of the Stars of Night) an anonymous text from the 7th century used at Vespers during Advent.

The Navajo Benedictory Chant words are:

Now Talking God,
With Your feet I walk,
I walk with Your limbs,
I carry forth Your body,
For me,Your mind thinks,
Your voice speaks for me.
Beauty is before me
And beauty behind me,
Above and below me hovers the beautiful,
I am surrounded by it,
I am immersed in it.
In my youth I am aware of it,
And in old age
I shall walk quietly
The beautiful trail........

The scenery in the video is of my yard and home in Upstate NY.

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[wobeck]

Bilagáana bizaad doo shił bééhózin da.

[carrolly2k]

It;s an English Translation.

[matthewvaughan]

This is beatiful and great to discover, Jim. Thanks so much for recording it and teaching it to us. Also, I have an apology to make to you: I haven't watched any of your videos in a few months, because I thought you hadn't put any up. I check my subscriptions every day and somehow you weren't on that list. I don't know what I did wrong, but I've fixed it now, anyway, and I'm making up for lost time.

[carrolly2k]

Thank you so much Matthew!

[frozenwhitebear]

if all the best forces of different cultures would work together that way, we'd live in world of peace!

[carrolly2k]

Amen!

[scheming8rythem]

@wobeck azoa yanlti biligaana bizaad nihil bahoozin, do ako nanl'do'do do nil bahozinoo.

[carrolly2k]

Hey John,Thanks so much!

[JohnMRavenscroft]

Thanks for that, Jim. Images and sounds to relax the troubled mind!

[carrolly2k]

Thank you