English words). Furthermore the language is several centuries older than Homer, so you have to deal with assorted archaisms. Then again, if you know even a little of ancient greek linguistics, it gets easier.
There has been this talk of the Navajos for a couple of weeks. I know they are an interesting people (oh, how beautiful was Ninibah Miriam Crawford, the beautiful representative of the Navajo Nation at the UN Environmental Conference in Stockholm 1972), but what about the Hopis? At the same conference I met David Monangaye, then the spiritual leader of the Hopi Nation (now dead), and Thomas Banyacya, now their spokesperson (and Thomas' daughter Loreena, oh, a true keeper of the earth). The Hopi word for Navajo is TASAVUH; literally "He who pounds his enemy's head with a rock", and for the communal and peace-loving Hopis the Navajos are an aggressive and ornery people who have been a headache ever since they invaded Black Mesa, shortly after the palefaces first appeared on the Hopis' sacred land. How funny that these head-pounders found a niche in the Pantheon of American Heroes. But no wonder they are the only Native American Nation to have more territory now than 100 years ago. Asgaard