The Flood Story

Bukidnon (Mindanao)

ブキドノン(ミンダナオ)

A long time ago there was a very big crab [115] which crawled into the sea. And when he went in he crowded the water out so that it ran all over the earth and covered all the land.

ずっと昔、たいそう大きな蟹 [115] がいて、それが海へ這い込んだ。そして入ると水を押し出したので、水は地じゅうに流れてすべての陸を覆った。

Now about one moon before this happened, a wise man had told the people that they must build a large raft. [116] They did as he commanded and cut many large trees, until they had enough to make three layers. These they bound tightly together, and when it was done they fastened the raft with a long rattan cord to a big pole in the earth.

さてこれが起こるひと月ほど前に、賢い人が人々に、大きな筏を造らなければならないと告げていた。[116] 人々は命じられたとおりにして数多くの大きな木を切り、そして三層にするのに足りるだけ集めた。それをしっかりと結び合わせ、そしてでき上がると、長い籐の綱で地の大きな杭に筏を繋いだ。

Soon after this the floods came. White water poured out of the hills, and the sea rose and covered even the highest mountains. The people and animals on the raft were safe, but all the others drowned.

それからほどなく洪水が来た。白い水が丘から注ぎ出し、そして海が上がって最も高い山まで覆った。筏の上の人と獣は無事だったが、ほかの者はみな溺れた。

When the waters went down and the raft was again on the ground, it was near their old home, for the rattan cord had held.

水が引いて筏がまた地に着いたとき、それは古い住まいの近くだった。籐の綱が持ちこたえていたからである。

But these were the only people left on the whole earth.

けれどもこれが、地のすべてに残った人々だった。