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From Scott Preston Collins:
Mani: Moka Mani: Tí:
Tutelo for Water is sacred, Water is Life.
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Mani: Ni:na-ki ne. (Water lives)- my translation
Don’t see that there is a consensus on this translation. Another interpretation of ‘Mani moka, mani ti’ by a a student of Yesan revitilization is ‘a watersnake lives in water’
Moka is the spelling for ‘snake’ given by Fontaine in 1715. Not certain how this is interpreted as ‘sacred’.
Ti is a verb that can mean ‘to live, reside, dwell’ coming from ‘Ati’ meaning house. How this forms the noun for life is unclear to me.
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