A young man was going on/across a field.

Iba un joven por el campo.

Then he was looking at his side and his sight went [saw] towards

Después fue mirando a su costado y vio [su mirada fue hacia]

a big snake. The snake's eyes were protruding

una víbora grande. Ojo saltones tenía la víbora

and the young man did not know what was happening.

y el joven no supo qué le pasaba.

Then he got closer and he saw that a large rock was squeezing

Después se acercó más y vio que una piedra grande le apretaba

the snake [he realized] and he could not get out from under it.

a la víbora [había sido que] y no podía salir de debajo de ella.

When the snake saw the young man, he screamed at him:

Al ver la víbora al muchacho, le gritó:

"Please take me out of this place," he said, very agitated.

"Sácame por favor de este lugar," dijo, demasiado agitado.

And [since] the snake was so big,

Y [como] la víbora [era] muy grande,

the young man was afraid of it.

le tuvo miedo el muchacho.

"I will not be able to take you out,

"No podré sacarte,

because you put me in danger," the guy said to him [snake].

porque vos me ponés en peligro," le dijo el tipo.

"How if you do me a favor,

"Como si me hacés un favor,

I'm going to jump on you? Are you hungry?

te voy a saltar? ¿Estás hambriento?

I will not do anything to you.

No te voy a hacer nada.

You only have to raise this rock and you will have saved me already."

Tú solo [tienes que] levantar esta piedra y ya me habrás salvado."

They talked a long time,

Mucho tiempo estuvieron conversando ellos,

and then in the end the young man took him out, it turns out.

y después a la cansada el muchacho lo sacó.

And having got out of that place,

Y por haber salido de ahí,

the snake came to eat him.

ya vino la víbora para comerle.

At that moment, the young man said to the snake:

En ese momento el muchacho le dijo a la víbora:

"If you want to eat me so much,

"Si demasiado quieres comerme,

let’s go find a witness.

vamos a buscar un testigo.

Let’s see what they say to us."

Véamos qué nos dicen ellos."

And they went together to find a witness.

Y se fueron juntos a buscar el testigo.

They arrived under a tree

Fueron a llegar ellos debajo de un árbol

and found a horse that was eating.

y vieron un caballo [que] estaba comiendo.

They got up close [to the horse]

Se acercaron juntos [al caballo] ellos

and told him how the snake was/had been (ra’e progessive)

y [ellos] le contaron [al caballo] como [la manera en que] estaba la víbora

and told him what the young man had done for him ra’e.

y lo que el muchacho le hizo.

"What do you say," the snake told him,

"Qué decís," le dijo la víbora,

"do I eat him up or do I just let him go?"

"le como o le dejo ir?"

The horse without blinking [said]:

El caballo sin pestañear [dijo]:

"Eat him," he said,

"Comele sique," le dijo,

"these men do not want to know anything about us, they do not have a heart.

"estos hombres no quieren saber nada de nosotros, no tienen corazón.

Those ones grab us, rope us, get on us,

Esos a nosotros nos agarran, nos enlazan,

they spank and mount us, they prick us, [and] twist our tails,

nos pegan y se suben sobre nosotros, nos incan, nos tuercen la cola,

and they put an iron in our mouth."

y nos meten en nuestra boca un hierro."

They went further and found an ox.

Pasaron más de ahí [pasaron de largo] ellos y encontraron un buey.

They told him why they were arguing.

Le contaron ellos porque están en litigio.

The ox also, said in one word,

El buey también, dijo en una palabra,

not even hearing all of what those two were saying:

ni escuchó todo luego lo que le decían esos dos:

"Eat him," he said to the snake.

"Comele sique," le dijo a la víbora.

"This one ties our head to the wood,

"Este nos ata nuestra cabeza por la madera,

ties our mouth and our back,

ata nuestra boca y nuestra espalda,

and makes our buttock bleed with a pointy stick, and then not content,

y nuestra nalga nos hace sangrar con un palo puntiagudo, y después no se contentan,

and after they kill us,

y después de matarnos,

they drink ‘terere’ from our horn."

toman terere con nuestro cuerno."

Two already are with the snake.

Dos ya son los que están con la vibora.

And they went to look for a third one.

Y se fueron a buscar los dos a la tercera.

They found a fox on an anthill. He was looking far away to the edge of the forest.

Encontraron un zorro, sobre un hormiguero, estaba mirando lejos, a la orilla del bosque.

They told him what had happened:

Le contaron los dos lo que pasó:

How is it that the young man had taken the snake out from under the rock,

Cómo es que el muchacho le sacó a la víbora de debajo de la piedra,

and now he wants to eat him?

y ahora él le quiere comer a él?

The young man pretended to bend down and said very close to the fox’s ear:

El hombre disimuló agacharse y muy cerca del oído del zorro dijo:

"I have many hens that are sleeping!" [standing up]

"¡Tengo muchas gallinas que duermen!" [duerme parado]

The fox heard all that they were telling him, and came out to say:

Escuchó todo el zorro lo que le contaron los dos, y ahí salió [a decir]:

"How [from-where] am I going to know

"Acaso de dónde voy a saber

if it is the truth that which they tell me?" said he.

[si es] la verdad eso que me cuentan?" le dijo [luego].

"If I had really seen it I could say

"Si hubiera visto yo realmente podría decir

'eat him' or 'do not eat him.'

'comele' o 'no le comas.'

And for that we must at least go see your facts,

Y para eso tenemos que irnos solamente a ver los hechos,

don’t trick me. Let’s go see where you have been,"

no me vayan a enganãr. Vamos a ver donde es lo que estuviste,"

he said to the snake.

le dijo a la víbora.

"And only it is the truth I will commit myself."

"Y solamente si es la verdad voy a comprometerme."

"Let’s go see," he told the lad, and they went together all of them.

"Vamos a ver," le dijo [énfasis] el muchacho, y se acompañaron [se fueron juntos] todos ellos.

Far went the lad and the snake back on their footsteps,

Lejos se fueron el muchacho y la víbora [sobre sus pasos/por sus huellas],

and they arrived at the place of the big rock, the snake’s former place.

y fueron a salir al lugar de la piedra grande, el lugar de la víbora.

The fox looked at the rock, and he said to the snake:

Miró el zorro a la piedra, y le dijo a la víbora:

"Please put yourself again at the place where you were,

"Ponete otra vez en el lugar donde estabas,

let us truly see the place where you were suffering."

vamos a ver de verdad el lugar [donde] estuviste sufriente."

The snake went in backwards into the place where he had been,

Entró otra vez la víbora reculando en el lugar donde estuvo,

and the lad with the fox helped each other

y el muchacho con el zorro se ayudaron

and placed the rock on the snake again.

y sentaron ellos la piedra sobre la víbora otra vez.

And the snake stayed again in its place.

Y la víbora se quedó otra vez en su lugar.