Destruction of the First world (A Hopi Poem)

And Taiova gets fed up of
the many evil acts,
which drove the animals away from the people,

and Taiova is shocked by
the increasing bad language,
that turns people against each other,

and he chooses those who respect the law
and opens their closed doors of wisdom,
and with the help of cloud and star
leads them to a safe place
to the giant ant’s womb ,

and commands the governor, Sotuknang,
and Sotuknang opens the blistering mouth of volcanoes,
and the blistering mouth of volcanoes
spews simmering fire on the first world

and melts the hard ground,
and boils the cold water,
and dries up the humid air ,

and burns the first world’s color, yellow,
and burns the first world's mineral, gold,
and burns the first world’s direction, the West,
and burns the first world’s plant, a four-leaved
and burns the first world's animal, the snake.

A Hopi poem by a Hungarian writer

Translated from Hungarian by me