Re: Challenge to puzzle-lovers: Vampire dialogue from "Blade"

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Maybe the last sentence is somethign like:
> Redani Proto uchanu,     siznu  praga  umporta, umpanuwa
> God    Blood will-awaken twelve of-the spirits
> IIRC, this was in a religious setting, so perhaps _umpanuwa_ is a
> formulaic word, like "amen"?  Or maybe it means something like
> "slaughtered", but was dropped from the s0ubtitles?  (I.e., "The
> slaughtered spirits of the twelve will awaken La Magra")
It can't mean slaughtered, I think, since the twelve refer to vampire
messengers rather than victims.  (Did I get that right?  I confess I
fast-forwarded through large chunks of the movie, honing in on scenes that
had subtitles in them.  I guess I should grit my teeth and watch the movie
all the way through.)

Anyhow, this sentence is uttered twice:  Once by the corpulent vampire who
the Wesley Snipes character interrogates, and later by the Wesley Snipes
character in talking to his nemesis, the Stephen Dorff character.  The
corpulent vampire's speech is too slurred to be made out (he's screaming in
pain as he talks), so I took this sentence from Wesley Snipes's line.
Here's the context:

  SNIPES:  "Redani proto uchanu..."
  [SUBTITLE:  "The spirits of the twelve..."]
  SNIPES:  "... siznu praga umporta ... umpanuwa."
  [SUBTITLE:  "... will awaken La Magra."]
  DORFF:  "So you know about the Blood God..."

Snipes adds "umpanuwa" as an afterthought.  My first guess was that
"Umporta" is the archaic vampire name for La Magra (some sort of vampire
messiah, I think), and that "Umpanuwa" is the modern equivalent, perhaps an
epithet or literal translation of the old name (maybe "blood-god").  It's as
though Snipes adds "Umpanuwa" to clarify that he knows all about Dorff's
evil plan, hence Dorff's reaction.

Incidentally, either the corpulent vampire or Snipes makes an error in
pronouncing the last word of the first phrase:  Snipes says "uchanu", while
the corpulent vampire says something like "ufanu".

Matt.