Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin

Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

<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, 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. 3882-3885), and thirdly, in a still more extended one (L IV. -4. 3890-3900).</i>

1) There are three versions of this story in this notebook (IV-4); see also

story

January 1874

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Custom and daily life

Artefact and dress

Hare ( the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin )

Hare ( the Moon sends him to tell the people who are ill that they will live again like he does )

Hare ( is condemned or sentenced by Moon )

Hare ( gives an 'evil' message )

Hare ( is punished by Moon )

Hare ( his mouth is burnt with a stone by Moon )

Hare ( alters Moon's message )

Hare ( accounting for nature and habits of hares )

Hare ( his fight with Moon )

Hare ( his speech )

Hare ( and death of people )

Hare ( and Moon )

Hare ( and creation of death )

Hare ( and resurrection )

Hare ( tells people they 'altogether die' )

death ( the creation of )

death ( of people )

death ( of ill people )

death ( people will vanish and disappear )

death ( the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin )

death ( what Hare tells people about )

death ( and resurrection )

death ( people 'altogether' die )

death ( the Moon lives again )

Moon ( condemns Hare )

Moon ( sends the Hare to tell the people who are ill that they will live again like he does )

Moon ( his message to people )

Moon ( punishes Hare )

Moon ( burns Hare's mouth )

Moon ( the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin )

Moon ( and death )

Moon ( resurrection of )

Moon ( lives again )

Moon ( waxes and wanes )

Moon ( and death of people )

creation ( of death )

creation ( the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin )

origin ( of death )

origin ( the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin )

fight ( between the Hare and the Moon )

fight ( the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin )

speech ( of the Hare about death )

speech ( the Moon and the Hare: a version by ≠kasin )

3890-3900