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Portuguese to English: ORIGEM DO MUNDO E DA HUMANIDADE General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Portuguese
O mundo não existia
No princípio o mundo não existia. As trevas cobriam tudo. Enquanto não havia nada, apareceu uma mulher por si mesma. Isso aconteceu no meio das trevas. Ela apareceu sustentando-se sobre o seu banco de quartzo branco. Enquanto estava aparecendo, ela cobriu-se com seus enfeites e fez como um quarto. Esse quarto chama-se Uhtãboho taribu, o “Quarto de Quartzo Branco”. Ela se chamava Yebá Buró, a “Avó do Mundo” ou, também, “Avó da Terra”.
Como ela apareceu
Havia coisas misteriosas para ela criar-se por si mesma. Havia seis coisas misteriosas: um banco de quartzo branco, uma forquilha para segurar o cigarro, uma cuia de ipadu, o suporte desta cuia de ipadu, uma cuia de farinha de tapioca e o suporte desta cuia. Sobre estas coisas misteriosas é que ela se transformou por si mesma. Por isso, ela se chama a “Não Criada”.
Foi ela que pensou sobre o futuro mundo, sobre os futuros seres. Depois de ter aparecido, ela começou a pensar como deveria ser o mundo. No seu Quarto de Quartzo Branco, ela comeu ipadu, fumou o cigarro e se pôs a pensar como deveria ser o mundo.
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Translation - English
The world did not exist
In the beginning the world did not exist. The darkness covered everything. While there was nothing, a woman appeared by herself. This happened in the midst of darkness. She appeared propping herself up on her white quartz bench. While she was appearing, she covered herself with her ornaments and made like a bedroom. This room is called Uhtanboho taribu, the "White Quartz room". Her name was Yeba Buro, the "Grandmother of the World” or, also, “Grandmother of the Earth”.
How she appeared
There were mysterious things for her to create herself. There were six mysterious things: a white quartz bench, a fork to hold the cigarette, an ipadu kuya, the holder of this ipadu kuya, a kuya with tapioca flour, and the holder of this kuya. On these mysterious things she transformed by herself. Therefore, her name is the "Uncreated".
It was she who thought about the future world, about the future beings. After she appeared, she began to think about how the world should be. In Her White Quartz Bedroom, she ate ipadu, smoked cigarette and pondered how the world should be.