The Chant for Saturday 3pm
Yeliga–Zakpata Protection Chant
Yeliga eh! — Speak through the water!
Ancestors rise — walk with us now!
Zakpata eh! — Hold this ground!
Earth below — make us strong!
Protect this land — from war and harm!
Guard our blood — keep us from storm!
No evil walks — where we now stand!
No harm shall rise — upon this land!
Yeliga! (Lift us!)
Zakpata! (Root us!)
We call! — We feed! — We awaken!
By blood — by earth — we are protected!
Ase! Ase! Ase!
Closing:
This land is covered.
This land is guarded.
This land remembers us.And we remember it.