I think the following passage from the Feria Doctrina (in Colonial Valley Zapotec, 1567) may be one of the worst extended religious metaphors ever. God is a like an abusive husband -- he beats us to punish us for our sins, but won't leave us so long as we are faithful.
The beni niguio [ni=ti-gapa __ ][ ni=ti-bibe __ loo lechela=ni]] 'man who beats and thrashes his wife' is an interesting example. It shows what Pam Munro, John Foreman, Aaron Sonnenschein, and Heriberto Avelino have called the Covert Subject Construction -- here across apparent conjoined relative clauses. 'His wife' ought to be the object of both clauses, so this is also an example of Right Node Raising, and the possessor pronoun on 'his wife' is somehow responsible for licensing the omission of the subjects of both preceding verbs.
