Chihota Totem In English

The English Translation............

The Clan Praises of the People of Chihota's Clan

You have done a service,

You who yearn to give.

Thank you, Zebra.Thank you, my dear Tembo present to me. Thank you, Ground hornbills;

Beast whose horns' points-grow down to meet together;

Harmless beast without horns. A service has been rendered. Zebra.

Kindly done, Striped one;One who yearns to share;

Hornless beast from Renje.

Thank you, Tembo;

Adorned with your own stripes;Iridescent and glittering creatures;Whose skin is soft as girls' is;One on which the eye dwells all day, as on the solitary cow of a poor

man;

Creature that makes the forests beautiful;Weaver of lines;Who wear your skin for display;

Drawn with lines so clearly defined;You who thread beads in patterns;

Dappled fish;Hatching round the neck of a pot;Beauty spots cut to rise in a crescent on the forehead;A patterned belt for the waist;Light reflected;

Dazzling the eyes.

It is its own instinct, the Zebra's,Adorned as if with strings of beads around the waist as women are;Wild creature, without anger or any grudge;Lineage with a totem that is nowhere a stranger;

Line that stretches everywhere;Owners of the land.