Burial (another account)

Burial (another account)

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

When a person dies, the !kun (!nanni's people) do not immediately leave the place of death but leave as a group on another day. In !nanni's maternal grandfather's country, the dead go into the Moon.

1) p.9251v: Lloyd notes that the belief about the moon and the dead came as an answer to a question she had asked the boys comparing this belief to a similar superstition held by the |xam, 2) See also

story

21 - 22 January 1880

Custom and daily life

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

burial ( and the making of the grave )

burial ( !kun customs at )

burial ( of !nanni's little brother )

death ( beliefs about )

death ( the dead go into the Moon )

death ( of !nanni's little brother )

death ( !kun customs at )

death ( the other people leave the place of death another day )

death ( actions at )

death ( the making of the grave )

death ( and burial )

death ( and the !kun )

!nanni ( the death and burial of his little brother )

!nanni ( his personal history )

grave ( or !korro )

grave ( and the burial of !nanni's little brother )

personal history ( death and burial of !nanni's little brother )

country ( people leave for another place when someone dies )

country ( !in nanni's maternal grandfather's, dead go into the Moon )

Moon ( and !kun belief about death )

Moon ( dead go into )

Moon ( !in nanni's maternal grandfather's country the dead go into )

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