Story of the Moon and the Hare and how the Moon punished the Hare

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Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

Summary

<i>The veritable Hottentot myth of the 'Origin of Death' is told in the Katkop dialect by ≠kásin, whose father was a Hottentot; and, although the narrator says that he heard the story from his mother /'wá ≠kõ, a Bushwoman, its Hottentot origin can hardly be doubted. Here, the Moon sends the Hare to men with the message of the renewal of life; but it reverses it into a message of death. The angered Moon then heats a stone, and burns the Hare's mouth, causing the harelip. ≠kásin told this story three times; once in a very short version (B XXV. 2361-2364), secondly, in a little longer one (L IV.-4. 3886-3889) and thirdly, in a still more extended one (L IV.-4. 3890-3900).</i>

Comments

1) ≠kasin heard this from his mother (ko a ≠ko) 2) p.3444v: ≠kasin heard things about death and ascending thoughts from his father and mother; his father heard them from his father, 3) See also

Type

story

Date

4 November 1873

Category

History (Early Race)

Keyword

Moon ( punishes Hare )

Moon ( lives again )

Moon ( his fight with Hare )

Moon ( his resurrection )

Moon ( and creation of death )