Plain text of A Praise of the Creatures of the Sea (Nanshe B)
Segment B
1-12 Fishes light up the interior of the sea like fires. Fishes play on instruments like priests. Fishes call out loudly like oxen. The runner-fish (kackac) hastens (kac). The gurgur fish makes the sea surge up (gurgur). The flash-fish (jiri) makes the sea sparkle (jir). Fish spawn is heaped up so that ...... fishes will grow in the sea. Fishes fly around like swallows.
13-22 The boat sails home. Its canopy of gold and fragrant cedarwood sparkles on the sea. Its cabin shines like rejoicing moonlight on the sea.