Black Elk
"Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one."
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"Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one."
"حلم الحصان الجامح ودخل العالم حيث لا يوجد سوى أرواح كل شيء. ذاك هو العالم الحقيقي الكامن وراء هذا، وكل ما نراه هنا ليس إلا كظل من ذاك."
Black Elk
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
"The Holy Land is everywhere"
"الأرض المقدسة في كل مكان"
Black Elk
"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers."
"فجأة، لم يعد هناك سوى عالم من الغيم، وكنا نحن الثلاثة وحدنا في قلب سهل أبيض عظيم، تحدق بنا تلال وجبال ثلجية؛ وكان السكون عميقاً؛ لكن الهمسات كانت تُسمع."
Black Elk
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."
"لا سلام بين الأمم ما لم يُعرف أولاً ذلك السلام الحقيقي الكامن في أرواح البشر."
Black Elk
"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."
"يمكن للرجال الكبار أن يتعلموا من الأطفال الصغار، فإن قلوب الأطفال نقية طاهرة. ولذلك، قد يكشف لهم الروح العظيم أموراً كثيرة يغفل عنها الكبار."
Black Elk
"And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me."
"ولولا أن الخوف العظيم قد استولى عليّ، كما فعل، وألزمني أداء واجبي، لربما كنت أقل نفعًا للناس من رجل لم يحلم قط، حتى مع بقاء ذكرى تلك الرؤيا العظيمة في وجداني."
Black Elk
"To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see."
"لاستحضار قوة الثور البري، كان عليّ أن أُجسّد ذلك الجزء من رؤياي أمام أعين الناس."
Black Elk
"I cured with the power that came through me."
"شفيتُ بقوةٍ سرتْ في كياني."
Black Elk
"You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me."
"أجل، لقد كنت أمتطي غيوم العاصفة، وهبطت إلى الأرض مطراً، فقتلت الجفاف بالقوة التي وهبني إياها الأجداد الستة."
Black Elk
"I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see."
"لعلّي قد ذكرت لك، وإن لم يكن، فلا شكّ أنك أدركت، أن المرء صاحب الرؤيا لا يتمكّن من تفعيل قوّتها إلا بعد أن يُحقّق رؤياه على أرض الواقع، فتكون مرأى للناس."
Black Elk
"If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was."
"إن أعدت قراءة ما كُتب، أدركت كيف كان."
Black Elk
"I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength."
"أدركتُ الآن مغزى ذلك، فالبايسون كانت هبةً من روحٍ طيبةٍ وقوتنا، لكننا سنفقدها، ومن الروح الطيبة ذاتها علينا أن نجد قوةً أخرى."
Black Elk
"I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it."
"رأيت رؤيا لو أني امتلكت القوة لتحقيقها، لنجوت بقومي."
Black Elk
"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."
"يمكن للرجال الكبار أن يتعلموا من الأطفال الصغار جداً، فإن قلوب الأطفال نقية. ولذلك، قد يُظهر لهم الروح العظيم أموراً كثيرة يغفل عنها الكبار."
Black Elk
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
"إن السلام الأول، وهو الأهم، هو الذي ينبعث في أرواح الناس حين يدركون علاقتهم ووحدتهم مع الكون وكل قواه، وحين يدركون أن الروح العظيمة تسكن في مركز الكون، وأن مركزها الحقيقي موجود في كل مكان، إنه يسكن في داخل كل واحد منا."
Black Elk
"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream..."
"لم أكن أعلم حينها كم من الأشياء قد انتهت. والآن، حين أنظر إلى الوراء من هذا التل الشاهق لشيخوختي، ما زلت أرى النساء والأطفال المذبوحين مكدسين ومبعثرين على طول الوادي المتعرج بوضوح كما رأيتهم بعينين ما زالتا يافعتين. وأرى أن شيئًا آخر قد مات هناك في الوحل الدامي، ودُفن في العاصفة الثلجية. لقد مات حلم شعب هناك. كان حلمًا جميلًا..."
Black Elk
"And when I breathed, my breath was lightning."
"وحين تنفست، كان نَفَسي برقًا."
Black Elk
"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men."
Black Elk
"The Holy Land is everywhere"
Black Elk
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
Black Elk
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