|xue, his father and changes

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Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

!nanni (XI)

Summary

|xue is water, a lizard, grass, a |nu-erre bird, a dead elephant, a buffalo, a tsan, an Omuherero and a snake (a ||ge). |xue makes reeds at the water and grabs one of the woodpigeons. |xue becomes |xue and rises up and grabs the bitten woodpigeon and plucks out its feathers, putting them on his head. |xue puts the woodpigeon's body on hot embers and eats it. He hears an Ovaherero and hides. |xue flies away to his mother's country where he sees his father. |xue's mother and father become afraid of him and run away. |xue chases his father, all the while loudly speaking the Berg Damara language. |xue fears the large black reeds where his father hides. |xue sits and drinks water from a little hole and cries for his father. His father sees him, but leaves because |xue is an Omuherero. |xue searches for his father and cries when he does not find him.

Comments

1) p.9403v: !nanni heard this story from his paternal grandfather (Karu); for an illustration of this story see !nanni's picture of 10 April 1880 picturing a smoking |xue and some

Type

story

Date

11 April (started) - 24 April (finished on or about) 1880

Category

Transformation

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|xue ( his father and changes )

|xue ( becomes a ||ge or snake )

|xue ( his father steals silently after him )

|xue ( becomes an Omuherero )

|xue ( fears the reeds )

|xue ( becomes another kind of Bushman )

|xue ( speaks the Berg Damara's language )

|xue ( becomes a tsan and bites his father )

|xue ( becomes |xue, a man )

|xue ( becomes a buffalo )

|xue ( searches for his father )

|xue ( cries )

|xue ( his mother )

|xue ( his country )

|xue ( becomes a dead elephant and many birds eat him )

|xue ( his father's country )

|xue ( the name of his father's country )

|xue ( his father fears him because he is dead )

|xue ( is not really dead and rises up )

|xue ( calls to his father )

|xue ( dies )

|xue ( becomes |xue and dies )

|xue ( carries a little bag )

|xue ( makes fire )

|xue ( he works things )

|xue ( he becomes many things )

|xue ( his doings, or works )

|xue ( he changes )

|xue ( is water )

|xue ( is a goru, or lizard )

|xue ( makes reeds )

|xue ( he 'worked large grass' )

|xue ( grabs a woodpigeon as grass )

|xue ( becomes small grass and bites the woodpigeon )

|xue ( becomes |xue, a Bushman )

|xue ( puts the woodpigeon's feathers on his head )

|xue ( eats the woodpigeon )

|xue ( becomes a little bird, or |nu-erre )

|xue ( and the Ovaherero )

|xue ( his tears fall on the ground )

|xue ( and the Omuherero )

|xue ( becomes many |nu-erre birds )

|xue ( hides )

|xue ( is searched for )

|xue ( his transformations )

transformation ( |xue, his father and changes )

transformation ( and the death of |xue )

transformation ( |xue becomes many things )

transformation ( |xue makes, or works, many things )

transformation ( |xue becomes an Omuherero, another kind of Bushman, a tsan, |xue- a man, a buffalo, a dead elephant, water, a goru- lizard, a little bird- |nu-erre, a ||ge or snake, many |nu-erre birds )

resurrection ( |xue, his father and changes )

resurrection ( of |xue )

resurrection ( |xue rises up and changes form )

death ( |xue, his father and changes )

death ( of |xue )

death ( |xue dies and changes form )

death ( and |xue's resurrection )

death ( and |xue's transformation )

plants ( the !khu thorn-bush and its edible fruit )

plants ( !kun names of )

plants ( that |xue becomes )

plants ( |xue, his father and changes )