More about |xue

Metadata

Title

More about |xue

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

!nanni (XI)

Summary

In this story |xue becomes an ant, a butterfly, a fly, water, a buffalo, a snake, a tsan, a ||xuonna and a bird. |xue chases his wife in a variety of forms and eventually dies. His wife picks him up and puts him inside her kaross, but drops him when he becomes a ||xuonna. She goes on into her father's country. In another part of the account (also told to !nanni by Karu) |xue also becomes !naxane, an owl, a fly, a bee, a hyena and, finally, an ant. As a bee he bites and kills his father. |xue performs a doctoring ceremony and his father rises up and chases |xue. |xue and his father fight. Eventually, |xue settles on his father's head and he dies. |xue's father takes him off his head and sets |xue down on the ground, where he becomes an ant.

Comments

1) p.9391v: !nanni heard this story from his paternal grandfather (Karu); see |xue and the ostriches, 2) p.9401v: (17 March 1880) the name for |uma and Da's father (||ko |kue); |uma and Da's country is called ||noma; see

Type

story

Date

17 March 1880 (started)

Category

Transformation

Healing and ailing

Keyword

|xue ( more about |xue )

|xue ( is slapped and beaten by his father )

|xue ( his father's people seek for him )

|xue ( is placed inside his wife's kaross )

|xue ( bites and 'kills' his father )

|xue ( his works are numerous, and are not one, but many )

|xue ( performs a doctoring ceremony and restores his father )

|xue ( his grass hut )

|xue ( dies and returns to life in a different form )

|xue ( and his wife )

|xue ( and his father )

|xue ( tries to escape his wife )

|xue ( chases his wife as a buffalo )

|xue ( becomes different things on different days )

|xue ( resembles many things )

|xue ( his doings )

|xue ( his works )

|xue ( cries )

|xue ( his transformations )

|xue ( changes at sunrise and sunset )

|xue ( becomes !naxane, an ant, a buffalo, water, a ≠in-a or snake, a tsan, a ||xuonna, a bird, a large owl, a butterfly, a bee and a !gau )

|xue ( returns to his own form at night )

transformation ( more about |xue )

transformation ( |xue becomes !naxane, an ant, a buffalo, water, a ≠in-a or snake, a tsan, a ||xuonna, a bird, a large owl, a butterfly, a bee, a !gau )

transformation ( and death )

transformation ( of |xue )

transformation ( |xue changes form at sunrise and sunset )

transformation ( |xue becomes different things every day )

transformation ( |xue dies and returns in a different form )

death ( more about |xue )

death ( |xue dies and returns in a different form )

death ( and resurrection )

death ( |xue kills his father )

death ( of |xue )

death ( and transformation )

plants ( !naxane )