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Tsukime | つきめ

UPHYCAの巫女の世界観を歌っています。
リズムはイザイホーから、歌詞はユーカラやおもろさうしから拾い上げた単語と日本語を継ぎ合わせています。巫女が集まると、歌詞に合わせた『しぐさ』とともに輪唱します。
演奏は三叉四尖堂によるハングドラム。

2018/3/20@銀孔雀

 

つきめ おろしめ あそびませ
もどろうみよ つききよら
つなぐは みちよ あそびませ

つきめ おろしめ あそびませ
くんねけものの くちかかと
のればぬれてよ あぷとあし

つきめ おろしめ てすりませ
てすり ひのやま しまのせじ
とももとちよと とよみませ
 

【意訳】
憑き女 降ろし女、つまり巫女たちよ
いのりましょう
混沌の海に月が輝いています
月と巫女をつなぐのは水面に輝く月光の道

巫女たちよ いのりましょう
黒い夜の獣の口は燃えるように赤く輝いています
獣にまたがればしとどにぬれて雨が降りましょう

巫女たちよ いのりましょう
火山に すべての島の魂に
十年も百年も千年も、富み栄えますように

Verse 1

つきめおろしめ

あそびませ

もどろうみよ

つききよら

つなぐはみちよ

あそびませ

Tsukime = literally moon woman “old japanese, read: miko”

Oroshime = literally ‘drawing down’ woman “old japanese, read: miko”

Asobimase = triple meaning of prayer, ritual, and play (anything that isn’t part of normal daily life)

Modoro  = Okinawan word for chaos

Umi = ocean / born

Yo = calling out to

Tsuki = moon

Kiyora = clean / beautiful

Tsunagu = link / connect

Michi = road

Asobimase = triple meaning of prayer, ritual, and play (anything that isn’t part of normal daily life)

(read: Create the path or open a portal to another world; like the moon and reflection on water – the line between the two)

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Verse 2

つきめおろしめ

あそびませ

くんねけものの

くちかかと

のればぬれてよ

あぷとあし

Tsukime = literally moon woman “old japanese, read: miko”

Oroshime = literally ‘drawing down’ woman “old japanese, read: miko”

Asobimase = triple meaning of prayer, ritual, and play (anything that isn’t part of normal daily life)

Kunnne = Ainu word for black

Kemono = kemono

Kuchi - mouth

mouth; kaka = color of red, burning fire, snake

Anectdontes:

yama kagashi, snake story

Kagami - kakame - snake eye, because snakes have no eyelids

Kagayaku - glow, sparkle

Noreba - if you ride

Nureteyo - to get wet

Aputoashi - rain fall = water

Verse 3

つきめおろしめ

てすりませ

てすりひのやま

しまのせぢ

とももとちよと

とよみませ

Tsukime = literally moon woman “old japanese, read: miko”

Oroshime = literally ‘drawing down’ woman “old japanese, read: miko”

Asobimase = triple meaning of prayer, ritual, and play (anything that isn’t part of normal daily life)

Tesuri = gesture of rubbing hands together

Hinoyama = volcano (literally fire mountain)

Shima = island

Seji = (might exist in okinawan too) spiritual power, mana, raw power

To = 10

Momo - 100

Chi - 1000

Yo - year, duration of time, or plane of existence

Toyomi = (from omorosooshi) hibiku, reverberate, in old japanese = abundance

(Read: this song is sung for many years to come, may there be abundance)

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