Song to the Mountain Toucan Gao Sicuanga
Toucan Boa Woman (Sikuanga Amarun)
Singer: Eulodia Dagua
Recorded and translated by Tod Swanson
June 2009
When your husband gets angry, beats you and goes leaving you, you place tobacco here and here and tasting the tobacco in your mouth you sing this he (my father) said.
I am not a human woman
I just look like a human woman to your eyes.
Like a human …I appear
Not I…… I am not a human woman
Toucan boa,
I am a Toucan boa woman
With the skin of my belly
With the skin of my belly
I will wrap myself around your heart
I will wrap myself around (you).
And you thought that I ….
And you thought that I was a was human!
I am not a human woman
And I…..your heart…
I will wrap myself around your heart.
With the skin of my belly
With the skin of my belly
When the sun is straight up.
When the sun is straight up
Don’t eat now
You will feel me like a thorn.
Wanting, wanting
Your thoughts go there and here.
Turning you look back
Turning you look back
I am not a human woman
I am a toucan boa woman
Did you get angry with me thinking that I was a human woman?
When I am angry I am not a human woman.
To your eyes here
I just look like a human woman.
Mangu mangu warmiga
Urcu mangu warmiga,
Mangu,mangu
juu warmiga
Waicupugru mandami
jujujujuuuuujujoi
Asishami shamuni
Canga yanga mangumi
jujujujuuuu asishallaya
Shamujunlla nishachari
Yuyawajanri iyari
Ñuca ricucpi yaga
Ñuca warmichu
Kasnaya llaquinallaya asisha
Waicumanda shamujun casna asishachari
Paibi chagrabigaya tiapajun tiajun (?)
Yanga warmicha yuyashami tiagarani
Urcu manguta
Chulla mangu, manguta
Chulla chari arani iyari
Ñuca warmi tagaya .
Cari piñarisha makasha ichusha rijpi tawacuta
caima caima tawakuta amulisha cantana nigara
Mana runa warmichu maraniya ñucaga
Yangami ñucaga camba nawipiya runa shina,
Rruna uim ricuriani
Mana nuca yagari. Mana runa warmichu arani
Sicuanga amarun,
Sicuanga amarun warmimi marani nucaga,
Ñuca icsa carallawa?
Ñuca icsa carallawa ?
Camba shungu tagaya pilluchinga rauniga,
Pilluchinga rauniga
Canga ñuca tagayaaa,
Canga ñuca tagayaaa runa niwaranguichu
Mana runa warmichu arani
Ñucaga camba shungu tagayaaa,
Camba shungu tagayaaa pilluchinga rauniya
Ñuca icsa carallarawa,
Ñuca icsa carallarawa
Duce indi ashcawi,
Duce indi ashcawi
Mana micunguichu ya
Imanasha tayari, imanasha tayari
Casha yachiwangari
Nishaga,nishaga
Caima chimami iyarin
Vultarisha ricungui,
Vultarisha ricungui
Mana runa warmichu arani
Ñucaga sicuanga amarun warmi marani iyari
Can nuca tagayaaa runa warmichu nishachu piñawangui
Piñasha? mana runa warmichu arani
Camba ñawi caibimii
Runa warmi ricuriurani.