Baldubayan sat on a fast-legged grey horse with white
hooves and ordered a home servant to follow him.
The galloping did not last long,
and they came to the banks of the Nisihai River.
He could see there was a small house
on the eastern bank of the river.
Baldubayan looked,
and outside a young lady was handing washed
clothes on a railing to dry them in the sun.
Baldubayan approached and asked,
Young lady, please,
tell me where the house of the Nishan shaman is?
Smiling cheerfully,
the woman pointed and said,
It is on the western bank.
On hearing these words,
the landlord mounted his horse and went.
He looked around and saw a man standing in the yard.
Baldubayan dismounted from his horse,
came near and asked,
My friend,
this is the house of the Nishan shaman,
is it not?
Please tell me truly.
The man said,
On the east side,
you just ask the woman who was handing her wash out to dry.
She is the shaman.
Baldubayan thanked the man,
mounted his horse and galloped back to the eastern bank.
He dismounted from his horse and went into the house,
and he saw an old white-haired
woman seated on the southern bank.
A young woman was standing by the stool door and smirking.
The landlord thought,
The old woman sitting on the bank surely is the shaman,
and knelt
down on the ground before her.
Upon his begging,
the old woman said,
I am not a shaman.
My daughter-in-law,
who is standing by the stove,
she is the shaman.
Then Baldubayan stood up,
knelt before the young
lady and asked,
Shaman lady,
your great fame has spread.
Your name has excelled, putting others to shame.
Please,
it is because you are above and beyond scores of shamans
that I came to ask you to examine my son's disease.
She said,
Since it is your first time coming, let me see.
If it were another person, I surely
would not divine.
She washed her face and eyes,
arranged the incense table,
threw round
gold stones into the water,
and placed a seat in the middle of the room.
She took the drum
in her right hand,
grasped the elmwood drumstick with her left hand,
and sat on the seat,
began her invocation,
making circles with the drum and beating it,
chanting Khobage in a beautiful voice,
repeating Deyanku in a higher voice,
and mumbling.
She chanted her invocation.
She caused a spirit to enter her.
Baldubayan was kneeling on the ground and listening.
The Nishan shaman began to mumble,
explaining in these words.
The Nishan shaman began to mumble,
explaining in these words.
The Nishan shaman began to mumble,
explaining in these words.
Baldubayan again and again said,
Everything told you on the right was correct.
After that,
the shaman grasped the incense and stood up.
Coming out of her trance,
she gathered the drum,
the drumstick,
and the other things.