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Setting Sail for the New World

Wanderer, bearing the great bow with which he had shot dead nine blazing suns-at his side, his Golden Mother, Hsi Wang Mu, beautiful as the moon, who bore in her hands the peaches of immortality-and Tsao-shen, also, the home-loving imp, his laughing mouth smeared with honey-together with the mul- titude of Shiin-seen, shy, delicate maidens and bright-eyed, bearded sages. From impossibly distant Cathay they had travelled, bringing with them to safety, to the won- der and joy of every Fairy, what all had thought never to see again-a fire-breathing and terrible, winged and wonderful Dragon.

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Japanese text

がるウクライナの大平原から、数多くの妖精が集まってきた。いつも三日月鎌をもっている小人ポレビキや白くて長いあご髭のドミヴイ、空飛ぶ妖精ヴィリなどなど。レシャイはタタールの森を見限り、水の精ラスカルキは川から飛びだし、森の父とこけの乙女に先導されて冬の大平原を越え、黒海の浜辺で待つている船に乗りこんだ。全員がいっしょになって西のかなたの新しい大地に向けて移住を開始した。イタリアはどうだったろう?曇った空のようにどんよりして、トスカナようらんき地方産のワインのように暗い揺籃期にあったイタリアからは、ティレニ族が冒険にとびだした。波静かで眠るがごとき地中海の海面にずきんは、赤い頭巾をかぶったフォレッティの混成小型船隊が揺れていた。その船隊に乗りこんでいたのは、丸々とふとっていて騒々しいナポリの小人モナチェリ、馬をからかうのが大好きな小妖精リンチェッティ、ヴェニス出身の覗き見が得意でしのび笑いばかりしているバラボア、フロレンス出身の陽気なファファルリ、それに断崖を棲み家にする働きものの妖精サルヴァーニとアグアーネたちだ。風の吹かない海の上を、彼らはひと晩じゅう漂流していたが、とうとうしびれをきらしたサマスカッツォが、魔法を使って突風を吹かせた。帆は風をはらみ、どんどん前進した。ジブラルタル海峡にそびえるヘラクレスの柱と呼ばれるふたつの向かいあった岩に到着するまではほんの一瞬だった。アラビアからは、魔法の絨毯がキャラバンを組んで新大陸に渡ろうとした。永遠に吹くつむじかぜといわれる強い旋風にのって、らくらくと一行は旅をした。アラビアから追放された妖精のキャラバンには、砂漠生まれの巨人ディープや、星の光のように明るく美しい妖精ペリ、それに、煙のたたない火からつくられ、ようやくランプや瓶から自由になったジン (願いごとを実現する魔法があやつれる) たちがのりこんでいた。予言者によって追放された彼らもまた、さがしもとめたすえにようやく日の没する地をしんく発見したのだ。深紅の花、水晶でできた泉、甘い匂いの風そこは地上の楽園だった。エチオピア古代王国からは、アフリカの妖精たちが魔法を使って、月までとどきそうなキリマンジャロ山脈を越えて飛んでいった。バオバブの樹やマホガニーの木に棲む内気な妖精、川や鳥や獣や虫たちの友人である翼をもった妖精たちが貿易風に乗って運ばれ、部族どおしの戦さや奴隷商人のいないカリブ諸島や新大陸の東海岸に蝶のように舞いおりた。古代ギリシャからはわずかに生き残ったケンタウロス、ニンフを追いかけてばかりいるサテュロス、そして愛らしいニンフがやってきた。栄光のギリシャ帝国の散りぢりになった残存者たちだ。彼らの守護神である半山半人の最後の力をかりて、ヘブリデス諸島へとバン

English back-translation

…from the vast Ukrainian steppes, countless sprites gathered. The small Poleviki who always carry a sickle, the white long-bearded Domivye, the flying fairies the Vily and many more. The Leshy abandoned the forests of Tatary, the water spirits Ruskalki leapt from their rivers, and led by the Forest Fathers and Moss Maidens, they crossed the winter steppes and boarded the waiting ships on the shores of the Black Sea. All together they began their migration toward the new land far to the west. And what of Italy? From Italy — gloomy as a clouded sky, dark as Tuscan wine in its cradle days — the Folletti leapt into adventure. On the calm, sleeping surface of the Mediterranean bobbed a motley little fleet of red-hooded Folletti. Aboard this fleet were the plump and boisterous Na… …the boisterous little Naples dwarves the Monaciello, the mischievous Linchetti who love nothing more than teasing horses, the Baraboas from Venice who specialize in peeping and do nothing but snicker, the cheerful Farfarelli from Florence, and the hardworking cliff-dwelling sprites the Salvani and Aguane. They drifted through the windless night on the calm sea — until at last the impatient Samascazzo worked his magic and conjured a great gust of wind. The sails filled and they surged forward. In no time at all they reached the two facing rocks at the Strait of Gibraltar known as the Pillars of Hercules. From Arabia, a caravan of magic carpets set out to cross to the New World. Riding the powerful whirlwinds said to blow eternally, the company traveled with ease. In this caravan of sprites banished from Arabia were the desert-born giant Deevs, and the starlight-bright… …the beautiful fairy Peri, bright as starlight, and the Djinn — made from smokeless fire, at last freed from lamps and bottles — who possessed the magic to grant wishes. All were aboard. Banished by the Prophet, they too had searched and finally discovered the land where the sun sets. Crimson flowers, crystal fountains, sweet-scented winds — it was an earthly paradise. From the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia, the fairies of Africa flew by magic over the Kilimanjaro mountains that seemed to reach the moon. The shy sprites dwelling in baobab and mahogany trees, the winged fairies who were friends to rivers, birds, beasts, and insects — carried on the trade winds, they fluttered down like butterflies onto the islands of the Caribbean and the eastern shores of the New World, away from tribal warfare and slave traders. From ancient Greece came the few surviving Centaurs, the Satyrs who did nothing but chase Nymphs, and the lovely Nymphs themselves — scattered remnants of the glorious Greek empire. Drawing on the last power of their half-goat half-man patron deity, toward the Hebrides islands…

Setting Sail for the New World

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