|xue and his father

|xue and his father

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

|xue bites his father, breaking his father's finger. |xue's father goes away. |xue becomes a shana (the fruit of a small tree). The rain falls on him, and he lies down and cries when the rain is over. His father hears him and throws him over his shoulder. |xue cries very loudly so his father puts him down and he follows his father. |xue grabs a little |ou (a little buck, probably a steenbok) from some birds (!kuara). |xue's father roasts some of the meat and leaves for his own country. |xue sits at the fire and cries for his father to carry him. |xue hears his father's laughing and gets up, crying. He becomes rain and tells the rain to pour down on his father. |xue's father beats |xue and tells his wife to give |xue to another person so they can kill him. |xue hears this and cries and his father leaves. |xue follows his father and at sunrise he becomes !naxane. |xue's father puts two of the !naxane into his bag. |xue changes back to |xue and |xue's father searches for the !naxane. |xue climbs a !gua tree and refuses to come down, being afraid of being beaten. |xue's mother slaps him so that he falls from the tree. |xue becomes a lizard (gora) and then a bird (called ||kanna-tatta). [It says 'to be continued' on page 9489v, but it is not clear where the story is taken up.]

1) p.9436v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); the names of different dress (front-dress and tails); the names for noises made by beating different parts of the body with a knobkerrie, 2) p.9442v: (6 May 1880) the names of dress worn by men and women (short skin apron, long apron, woman's front dress, male's front dress), 3) p.9446v: names for tinder and tinderbox used by the !kun and the Ovaherero; 4) pp.9458v-9468v: see

story

1 May - 7 June 1880

Transformation

|xue ( and his father )

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

|xue ( his actions and doings )

|xue ( was not dead )

|xue ( his blood flowed )

|xue ( bites his father )

|xue ( trembles with cold )

|xue ( and the making of fires )

|xue ( at sunrise and sunset )

|xue ( his father leaves him for his own country )

|xue ( his father searches for and chases him )

|xue ( he bites his father's finger )

|xue ( his father laughs at him )

|xue ( follows his father )

|xue ( and the !kuara birds )

|xue ( his mother tells his father to beat him with a large stick )

|xue ( and his father and the |ou )

|xue ( his father carries him )

|xue ( calls for his father )

|xue ( his father fears him )

|xue ( fears his father )

|xue ( his father thinks he is another's child )

|xue ( his father's name is |xe' ||n'u )

|xue ( dies )

|xue ( is eaten as !naxane )

|xue ( makes the rain fall on his father )

|xue ( and fire )

|xue ( and his mother )

|xue ( is bitten by birds )

|xue ( is eaten as !naxane by woodpigeons )

|xue ( is slapped and beaten by his parents )

|xue ( changes )

|xue ( becomes many things )

|xue ( his transformations )

|xue ( becomes a lizard, rain, shana, !naxane, |xue, another |xue, a bird called ||kanna-tatta )

|xue ( lies down and cries )

|xue ( climbs a tree )

transformation ( |xue and his father )

transformation ( |xue becomes a lizard, rain, shana, !naxane, |xue, another |xue, a bird called ||kanna-tatta )

transformation ( of |xue )

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

transformation ( |xue becomes different things )

transformation ( |xue's changes )

resurrection ( |xue and his father )

resurrection ( of |xue )

resurrection ( and the death of |xue )

death ( and resurrection )

death ( |xue lives and dies )

death ( and |xue's changes )

death ( |xue dies and is eaten )

death ( |xue and his father )

plants ( !kun names of )

plants ( |xue and his father )

plants ( shana )

plants ( !naxane )

plants ( a !gua tree )

parents ( |xue's slap and beat him )

parents ( |xue and his father )

country ( |xue's father's )

country ( |xue and his father )

name ( of |xue's father )

name ( !kun, of birds, plants and animals )

name ( |xue and his father )

bird ( !kun names of )

bird ( called ||kanna-tatta )

bird ( |xue and his father )

bird ( called !kuara )

buck ( !kun name of )

buck ( called |ou )

buck ( |xue and his father )

9437-9438, 9443-9448, 9459-9490, 9489v