[Note: this text is archaic, and not a model of good current
gjax-zym-byn usage.  I have fixed some typos, but not updated
the text itself re: changes in grammar and semantics sine I
finished the translation in 2000.]

How the Enemy Came to Thlunrana                                    
by Lord Dunsany
			    
runx-ru miq-i liqm-cox tu-i "txlunrana-ram o.
"deqnsEJnij-sqam-kxa daxm-rq.

come-manner [topic] enemy [agent] Thlunrana to
Dunsany-[family name]-[respectful clitic] [author-from].



It had been prophesied of old and foreseen from the ancient days that
its enemy would come upon Thlunrana.  

ce hxy-i lq tu-i twax-zox mje-zxa: hoqnx  "txlunrana-ram liqw-i liqm-cox
tu-i re o runx-zox mje-cox.

this [patient] one [agent] says long-ago: that Thlunrana of enemy
[agent] there to come awhile-hence.


And the date of its doom was known and the gate by which it would
enter, yet none had prophesied of the enemy who he was save that he
was of the gods though he dwelt with men.

nu i mq jax-o zunq-cox-van pe veq'ty ro mq tu-i runx-van, lq tu-i hyw-zox
ce miq-i, moqj max paxn-fja tu-i twax-zox  liqm-cox sxu-i mym miq-i,
se hoqnx pq miq-i mym-van txeq'ku-zla liqw-i moqn tyn-zox max i.

time when it [role-becoming] is-dead and door through it [agent] goes,
one [agent] knows this [topic], but person none [agent] says enemy
of identity about, except that him about is-essence god-[pl.set]
relation-of though dwelt people at.


Meanwhile Thlunrana, that secret lamaserai, that chief cathedral of
wizardry, was the terror of the valley in which it stood and of all
lands round about it.  

viqj-saxm i "txlunrana-ram miq-i max-mix'hqax-jxwa keq'gxu-box pe
tix'sqax-kox-zxa cy-box sunx-keq'gxu-za nxiqn-i, pq tu-i hqum-fwa-zox
squn-pwiqm-rox squn-loq i tyn-van pq miq-i pe pq-cxi squn hxy-i. 

same-time during Thlunrana [topic] obsessive-people-place hidden-[adj]
and worship-place-big primary-[adj] art-secret-[adj] [comment], it [agent]
made-frightened valley (=humble-land) which-in located it [topic] and
it-around land [patient]. 


So narrow and high were the windows and so
strange when lighted at night that they seemed to regard men with the
demoniac leer of something that had a secret in the dark.  Who were
the magicians and the deputy-magicians and the great arch-wizard of
that furtive place nobody knew, for they went veiled and hooded and
cloaked completely in black.
 
veq'ty-riqm miq-i hqun-rox pe hum-cox-box pe twy-box viqj-loq pq fu-box
nix'sqiqm i nxiqn-i, woqn kax-txaj-van pq miq-i kax-zox sqix'fy-hqa-tan
max miq-ma-i, ru-loq hoqnx gax tu-i keq'gxu sxaxj-i sxu-zox nix'sqiqm-rox
i.  max-loq miq-i sunx-keq'gxu-tla sroq jax-i pe sunx-keq'gxu-tla-txox
sroq jax-i pe sunx-keq'gxu-tla-zxa jax-i, ce miq-i kun-zox max paxn-fja
tu-i, woqj pq paxn tu-i vlym-ca taxlm-vlym pe max-vuj-vlym
leq'ku-txaj-box syj-i. 

window (=seeing-door) [topic] narrow and high and strange time-which
alight night-during [comment], thus appear they [topic]
look-at as-demons humans [meta-topic], as which something [agent]
secret [possesed] have darkness in.  who [topic] wizard (plural) [role]
and little-wizard (plural) [role] and big-wizard [role], this [topic]
know person none [agent], because they all [agent] clothed-themselves
head-clothing and body-clothing black with.


Though her doom was close upon her and the enemy of prophecy should come
that very night through the open, southward door that was named the Gate
of the Doom, yet that rocky edifice Thlunrana remained mysterious still,
venerable, terrible, dark, and dreadfully crowned with her doom.  

hoqnx pq sxu-i gaxn-zunq-cox miq-i nxy-fja-van, kinq liqm-cox twax-i
pq tu-i runx-zox mje-cox veq'ty ro nix'sqiqn txoq i, veq'ty-loq
jiqlm-box tyn-hqim miq-i veq'ty-gxeq'fu-fwa-ram niqm-van nxiqn-i, ce
moqj rix'max-poq mrunq-sxiqw-na "txlunrana-ram miq-i saxm-van
keq'gxu-box, tix'sqax-txox-faj-mwe, hqum-zxa-fwa, nix'sqiqm-rox, pe
zunq-cox-vuj faxn-i hqum-fwa nxiqn-i.

that she of death-cause [topic] was-near, and enemy prophecy-of him
[agent] come [future] door through  night immediate during , door-which
open place-south-part [topic] door-dread-of-doom-cause-name is-named
[comment], this even-so house-that rocky Thlunrana [name] [topic]
remained secret, respect-worthy, dark, death crowned-by causing-fear
[comment].

           It was not often that anyone dared wander near to Thlunrana
by night when the moan of the magicians invoking we know not Whom rose
faintly from inner chambers, scaring the drifting bats: ...


nu-rynx henx max-kwoq tu-i kurnx-runx-zox nxy-fja-box "txlunrana-ram o
nix'sqiqm i, viqj-loq sunx-keq'gxu-tla tu-i max miq-kun-txaj-bax nxaxw-o
nxaxw-zox, kinq pq rq hqaxnq miq-i ku-txaj-van rix'max-txy nxy-cox-box
srqnx, kinq hqum-fwa-zox leq'pax tu-runx hxy-o.

time-many not person-any [agent] dare-go near Thlunrana to night
during, while-which magicians [agent] person known not [called]
invoked, and they of moaning [topic] was-heard rooms inside from-in,
and frightened bats flying [patient].

...but on the last night of all the man from the black-thatched cottage
by the five pine-trees came, because he would see Thlunrana once again
before the enemy that was divine, but that dwelt with men, should come
against it and it should be no more.

moqj nix'sqiqm seq'tun-za inx, max-viq loq tyn-van rix'max-txox i
taxlm-leq'ku-txaj-box hqun dxy-box i miq-i, max-koq tu-i runx-zox,
rynq-poq kujm-i sru-riqm-zox nu ciq-joqj "txlunrana-ram miq-i,
liqm-cox zunq-cox-fwa rynq-i, runx txwi, liqm-cox loq miq-i txe'ku-tan
dxe max-i tyn-van nxin-i.

But night final during, man who lived house in head-black pine five
by, [topic], man-this [agent] came, this-act because want-see time
one-more Thlunrana [topic], enemy deadly of coming before, enemy which
[topic] divine but men-with dwelt [comment].


           Up the dark valley he went like a bold man, but his fears
were thick upon him; his bravery bore their weight but stooped a
little beneath them.  He went in at the southward gate that is named
the Gate of the Doom.  ...

runx-zox kxoq-so squn-pwiqm-rox nix'sqiqm-rox ki ru-loq max-kurnx,
moqj pq sxu-i hqum rynx miq-i tyn-van pq sin.  pq-i kurnx tu-i
sqax-zox hqum sxu-i waxj hxy-i, moqj runx-zox hiq-box fe.  pq tu-i
runx-zox kxoq-rqnx, tyn-hqim  veq'ty ronx, veq'ty-loq
veq'ty-gxeq'fu-fwa-ram miq-i niqm-ca.

go upward valley dark through like bold-person, but him of fear many
[topic] rested him on.  him-at courage [agent] carried  fear of weight
[patient], but went with-difficulty a little.  he [agent] went inward
place-south  gate through, gate-which door-doom-cause-name [topic] is named.

...He came into a dark hall, and up a marble
stairway passed to see the last of Thlunrana.  At the top a curtain of
black velvet hung and he passed into a chamber heavily hung with
curtains, with a gloom in it that was blacker than anything they could
account for.  In a sombre chamber beyond, seen through a vacant
archway, magicians with lighted tapers plied their wizardry and
whispered incantations.

pq tu-i runx-zox rix'max-txy-zxa onx, pe cqix'ny maxrm-na so runx-zox
txlunrana-ram miq-i riqm kujm-o.  cqix'ny sim vlym-rix'max-txy
beq'leq'du-leq'ku-txaj su-txaj-van goq, kinq pq runx-kxoq-ronx-zox
rix'max-txy vlym-da onx, tyn-loq i pwiq-cox-toqj goq, pxiq-sra txe
vlym gaxn-i.  re ri rix'max-txy pwiq-fja-box inx, fu-cxa sqax-i
sunx-keq'gxu-tla tu-i rynq-zox zxiq-zqiqnx miq-i pe twax-zox
twax-zqiqnx miq-i.

he [agent] go room-big into, and stairway marble to-top go Thlunrana
[topic] see for.  stair in top curtain velvet-black hangs behold, and
he goes-inward room curtain-full into, place-which in undelight here,
more than curtains because.  there beyond room undelightful in, light
carrying magicians [agent] do specialty-magic [topic] and say stanzas
magic [topic].

             All the rats in the place were passing away, going
whimpering down the stairway.  The man from the black-thatched cottage
passed through that second chamber: the magicians did not look at him
and did not cease to whisper.  He passed from them through heavy
curtains still of black velvet and came into a chamber of black marble
where nothing stirred.  Only one taper burned in the third chamber;
there were no windows. ....

req'tax paxn-box re rqnx runx-zox hqaxnq-txox rynq-i cqix'ny kxoq-ton.
rix'max-leq'ku-txaj rq max-viq tu-i runx-zox rix'max-txy cxu-pa ro,
kinq sunx-keq'gxu-tla tu-i kax-henx-zox pq miq-i pe twax-zox daxn-box
henx.  pq tu-i runx-zox pq-keq'gxu rq vlym-waxj leq'ku-txaj-box
beq'leq'du-na joqj ro , kinq runx-zox rix'max-txy maxrm-leq'ku-txaj-na
o tyn-loq i gax paxn-fja flaxnq-zox.  fu-cxa ciq-zu-box miq-i
pix'rax-van re dax-pa i, veq'ty-riqm bax-box goq.

rats all place out-of go crying-small [doing] stair downward.
house-black from man [agent] goes room second through, and magicians
look not him [topic] and say no-more not.   he [agent] go they-hidden
from, curtains-heavy black velvet still through, and goes room
marble-black to place-which in thing none shivered.   light one-only
[topic] burn here third in, window zero behold.

...... On the smooth floor and under the smooth wall a
silk pavilion stood with its curtains drawn close together: this was the
holy of holies of that ominous place, its inner mystery.  One on each
side of it dark figures crouched, either of men or women or cloaked
stone, or of beasts trained to be silent. 

laxn-jiq sin pe laxn-jqa-jiq txi tyn-mrax slix'ku-na miq-i su-van,
pq-i vlym jiqlm-cox-box jax-i, pq goq tyn pix'hax-ma-box re
gxeq'fu-fwa i, pq sxu-i keq'gxu nxy-cox-sra-box.  pq ci pq jxi
su-jqa-van pxax nix'sqiqn-rox miq-i, max-viq rej max-sxy rej
mrunq-sxiqw vlym-da rej ku-txaj-henx-van raxm-toxn nxiqn-i.

floor-smooth on and wall-smooth under enclosure silken [topic] stands,
it at clothes closed [state], it behold place holy-meta there
dread-causing at, it of mystery innermost.  it left-of it right-of sit
shapes night-dark [topic], man or woman or stone clothed or silent
animals [comment].

... When the awful stillness of
the mystery was more than he could bear the man from the black-thatched
cottage by the five pine-trees went up to the silk pavilion, and with a
bold and nervous clutch of the hand drew one of the curtains aside, and
saw the inner mystery, and laughed.  

keq'gxu sxu-i flaxnq-fja fjaxw-fwa miq-i dy-faj-fja nxiqn-i nu-loq i,
rix'max-leq'ku-txaj hqun dxy-box i rq max-viq tu-i runx-zox tyn-mrax
slix'ku-na o, kinq taxnq kurnx-box hqum-box rynq-i jiqlm-zox vlym
hxy-i, kinq riqm-van keq'gxu-nxy-cox miq-i, kinq pym-vuj-zox.

mystery of stillness awe-ful [topic] bearable-hardly [comment]
time-which in, house-black pine five by from man [agent] go enclosure
silken to, and taking courageous fearful by opens clothes [patient],
and sees mystery-interior [topic], and laughs.

... And the prophecy was fulfilled, and Thlunrana was never more a
terror to the valley, but the magicians passed away from their
terrific halls and fled through the open fields wailing and beating
their breasts, for laughter was the enemy that was doomed to come
against Thlunrana through her southward gate (that was named the Gate
of the Doom), and it is of the gods but dwells with man.
   
kinq twax miq-i kxy jax-o, kinq "txlunrana-ram miq-i hqum-fwa daxn-box
jax-o, kinq woqn sunx-keq'gxu-tla tu-i runx-zox rix'max-txy hqum-fwa
rq pe runx-hqum-zox squn laxn-txaj ge ko, hqaxnq-zox pe feq'hqiq-ca
rynq-i, woqj pym-vuj miq-i liqm-cox jax-i runx-zox nix'sax-za "txlunrana-ram on
re hqim veq'ty ro (pq-loq miq-i veq'ty-gxeq'fu-fwa-ram niqm-i), kinq
pq miq-i txeq'ku-zla sxu-i dxe max tyn-i.

and prophecy [topic] true [state-becoming], and Thlunrana [topic]
fearful no-more [state-becoming], and thus magicians [agent] go halls
frightening from and go-fearing places roofless through, wail and
torture-themselves doing, because laughter [topic] enemy [role] come
by-fate Thlunrana to there south-in door through (which [topic]
door-doomfear-cause [name]), and it [topic] god-[pl-set] [of] but men
[located-at].