WALUM OLUM

THE NAME " WALUM OLUM" MEANS PAINTED RECORD" IT IS RECORD CONSISTING OF SYMBOLIC GLYPHS OR PICTOGRAPHS WHICH WERE USUALYY INSCRIBED ON WOOD OR BIRCH BARK. EACH OF THESE GLYPHS WAS USED AS MEMORY AID IN RECITING THE POETIC VERSE WHICH  WENT WITH IT. THE SYMBOLISM OF THESE GLYPHS IS ROOTED IN SIGN LANGUAGE. 

THE WALUM OLUM USUALLY TRANS AS "RED  RECORD" OR RED SCORE" IS PURPORTEDLY A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF THE LENAPE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE. 

THE NARRATIVE BEGINS WITH THE FORMATION OF THE UNIVERSE, THE SHAPING OF THE EARTH AND THE CREATION OF THE FIRST PEOPLE, BY THE GREAT MANITOUS, THEN, AS THE GREAT MANITOU CREATES OTHER, SUCH AS FLIES, AN EVIL BEING BRIGS  UNHAPPINESS, SICKNESS, DISASTER AND DEATH. 

1. At first, in that place, at all times, above the earth,
1. Sayewi talli wemiguma wokgetaki,

2. On the earth, [was] an extended fog, and there the great Manito was.
2. Hackung kwelik owanaku wak yutali Kitanitowit-essop.

3. At first, forever, lost in space, everywhere, the great Manito was.
3. Sayewis hallemiwis nolemiwi elemamik Kitanitowit-essop.

4. He made the extended land and the sky.
4. Sohawalawak kwelik hakik owak [read, woak] awasagamak.

5. He made the sun, the moon, the stars.
5. Sohalawak gishuk nipahum alankwak.

6. He made them all to move evenly.
6. Wemi-sohalawak yulikyuchaan.

7. Then the wind blew violently, and it cleared, and the water flowed off far and strong.
7. Wich-owagan kshakan moshakwat [Var. moshakguat.] kwelik kshipehelep.

TAKEN FROM GOOGLE.