The dream

Metadata

Title

The dream

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

!nanni (XI)

Tamme (XII)

Summary

About the dream (or ||gan-a) of !nanni and Tamme's country. In !nanni's country a dream put 'a thing' into a person and this makes them ill. In Tamme's country, a dream speaks to him. The dream speaks to many people who hear it. The people told Tamme that when a person dies he or she becomes a dream (or ||gan-a). The dream's heart aches when this happens and kills another person (it puts a 'thing' in them).

Comments

1) p.9263v: 'The dream does not eat anything'; the !kun and Latin names for two plants, 2) See also <i>Curing illness (and the trance dance)</i>, 3) This story is found in Book XI & XII-4

Type

story

Date

24 - 26 January 1880

Category

Custom and daily life

History (personal)

Healing and ailing

Keyword

dream (or ||gan-a), dream (says 'Naaaa'), dream (and death), dream (what Tamme's people told him about), dream (in which Tamme sees his mother), dream (people who stand making gestures kill it and it is no more), dream (description of), dream (kills people because its heart aches), dream (dies when the ill person is doctored), dream (its heart aches), dream (its back-dress is made of mouse's skin), dream (speaks to many people), dream (its house), dream (in Tamme's country), dream (of !nanni and Tamme's country), dream (kills a person), dream (and the trance dance), dream (and doctoring), dream (makes people ill), dream (enters the country), dream (its body is small and resembles a person's), dream (its house is small and made of grass and resembles that of a bird), dream (its apron is made of ko o), dream (it puts a 'thing' in people), dress (the dream's back-dress and apron), house (the dream's), country (dreams in !nanni's and Tamme's kill a person), country (trance dance in !nanni and Tamme's country), death (and the dream), death (in Tamme's country the dead become ||gan-a, or a dream), death (the dream kills people because its heart aches), death (killing the dream and the trance dance), illness (caused by the dream), illness (and healing and the trance dance), healing (doctoring), healing (of illness caused by the dream), healing (when people make gestures and kill the dream), healing (and the trance dance), curing (illness caused by dreams), curing (and the trance dance), heart (the dream's aches), apron (the dream's), dance (trance), trance dance (and healing illness caused by the dream), trance dance (and killing the dream)