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Hamani Wakasa Fwongu mu Kutotisa Bayuta

Hamani wázangulu, kaasi Modekayi kázolaku fukama. Wáfunga khabu, Hamani wábanza ni kuhonda mutu mosi kaka kyafyoti kuluta, amana wásumba kwena kyamvu mutsiku wa kuzangisa Bayuta boosu muna kilumbu kina básola mu zeki. Batumwa bálubuka mu kwenda, bwosu kyamvu yi Hamani bazakala mu kunwa.

Kapitulu 3.

Kunima dya mama, Kyamvu Kisesi wázangula Hamani, mwana wa Hamedata muisi Angagi; wámutombula amana wázangula kiti kyandi ha thandu ya bazusi boosu bana bakala yi yandi. Basadi boosu ba kyamvu bana bakala ku mwelu wa kyamvu bakala fukama amana babwa kwena Hamani, bwosu kyamvu kahanga mutsiku. Kaasi Modekayi kázolaku fukama holo kubwa. Buna basadi ba kyamvu bana bakala ku mwelu wa kyamvu bámuhyula Modekayi: «Kikuma kya biki wisi kolama ku mutsiku wa kyamvu?» Kosu kilumbu bakala mubokwadila, kaasi yandi kázolaku; buna bázimbula kwena Hamani, ndangu bamona keti mambu ma Modekayi makála ngolu, mukuma wábazimbwala ni yandi Muyuta kákala. Muna tangwa Hamani kamona ni Modekayi kázolaku fukama holo kubwa kwena yandi, wáfunga khabu. Kuhonda Modekayi kaka kámona hanga dyambu dyafyoti kwena yandi, mukuma bázimbula kwena yandi batu ba Modekayi bana bakala; buna Hamani wásanda nzila ya kutotisa batu boosu ba Modekayi, Bayuta, muna Kipfumu kyosu kya Kisesi.

Muna ngonda ya theti, Nisani, muna mvula ya kumi yi modi ya Kyamvu Kisesi, bahanga babeti zeki — disongidila Puli — ku thwala ya Hamani kikuma kya kosu kilumbu yi kosu ngonda; amana zeki dyábwila ha ngonda ya kumi yi modi, Adali. Hamani wázimbula kwena Kyamvu Kisesi: «Kanda dyimosi dyámwangana amana dyázyalangana muna kati dya bikanda muna binzunga byosu bya Kipfumu kyaku. Mitsiku mya bawu myiswaswana yi mya batu boosu, amana bayekaminaku ku mitsiku mya kyamvu; buna kavutudilaku kyamvu kosu muluta mu kusisa bawu.» «Yuka ni byawu bisi musephidisa kyamvu, básonika mutsiku wa kubatotisa; amana meni yihána makuta ma palata ma tona makama matatu yi makumatsambwadi yi tanu kwena basadi bandi, ndangu basya mu mbongu za kyamvu.»

Kyamvu wákatula ndamba yandi ya kidimbu ku mulembu amana wáhana kwena Hamani, mwana wa Hamedata muisi Angagi, mbeni wa Bayuta. «Makuta menina maku,» kyamvu wázimbula kwena Hamani, «amana batu phi — hanga kwena bawu bwosu bwisi kusephidisa.»

Muna kilumbu kya kumi yi tatu kya ngonda ya theti, bátedisa basoniki ba kyamvu, amana básonika mutsiku wa Hamani kwena bapfumu ba kyamvu, bapfumu ba binzunga byosu, yi bazusi ba kosu kanda — kosu kinzunga muna bisona byandi, kosu kanda muna ndinga yandi. Básonika mu khumbu ya Kyamvu Kisesi, amana bánamika kidimbu ni ndamba yandi ya kidimbu. Bathumwa bánata mikanda muna binzunga byosu bya kyamvu: kutotisa, kuhonda amana kumanisa Bayuta boosu — batokami yi bambuta, bakhetu yi bana — muna kilumbu kimosi, kya kumi yi tatu kya ngonda ya kumi yi modi, Adali, amana kuyiba bima byawu. Bafweti sonika kifwani kya mukanda hanga mutsiku muna kosu kinzunga, amana basongila bikanda byosu, ndangu bakala bayilama kikuma kya kilumbu kina. Mu mutsiku wa kyamvu, bathumwa bálubuka thinu, amana mutsiku wálubuka muna mbanza yangolu ya Suza. Kyamvu yi Hamani bázakala mu kunwa, kaasi mbanza ya Suza yákala yi mabanza vwalanganu.