|xue as tchaxa

|xue as tchaxa

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Tamme (XII)

|xue becomes <i>tchaxa</i> (two of them). |xue's wife makes a hole in the smaller <i>tchaxa</i> and eats it (it is full of juice). |xue's wife makes a hole in the larger <i>tchaxa</i> but drops it because it is heavy. |xue falls out and his wife slaps |xue and scolds him, warning him that he will get killed in the form of one of these different things. He runs away to hide in a different place, where he becomes an elephant and vultures (<i>≠nue</i>) eat him. The father-in-law cuts at the elephant but the knife breaks, so the daughter fetches a larger knife to give to her father. [The ending is inconclusive.]

1) Lloyd notes in pencil on p.9348v that this story is 'probably' continued on p.9359, 2) Tamme heard this story from his paternal grandfather (Nakua or Nakka), 3) p.9358v: greetings in !kun (from !nanni and Tamme), 4) p.9360v: see <i>Bushman groups</i>, 5) p.9377v: Tamme's paternal grandfather saw |xue, 6) This story is found in Book XI &amp; XII-5

story

February - March 1880

Transformation

|xue (is alive and he is a lion and covered in hair), |xue (Tamme's paternal grandfather saw him), |xue (as tchaxa), |xue (and his transformations), |xue (and his wife), |xue (and his father-in-law), |xue (becomes different things on different days), |xue (resembles many things), |xue (his doings), |xue (his wife eats him as tchaxa), |xue (his wife slaps him), |xue (his wife scolds him), |xue (becomes an elephant), |xue (dies and is eaten by vultures), |xue (his father-in-law's attempts to rescue him), |xue (runs away from his wife and father-in-law), |xue (his wife holds his mouth when he cries), |xue (he cries loudly), transformation (of |xue), transformation (|xue as tchaxa), transformation (|xue becomes different things on different days), transformation (|xue resembles many things), plant (tchaxa), plant (|xue as tchaxa), plant (name of), tchaxa (plant), tchaxa (|xue becomes two of them), wife (of |xue), wife (|xue as tchaxa), father-in-law (|xue's), father-in-law (|xue as tchaxa), name (!kun, of plant), name (!kun, of vulture), name (|xue as tchaxa), vultures (!kun name of), vultures (|xue in elephant-form eaten by), vultures (|xue as tchaxa), elephant (|xue as tchaxa), elephant (|xue eaten by vultures in form of), elephant (|xue becomes), elephant (|xue's father-in-law cuts), lion (|xue becomes), lion (|xue covered in its hair), lion (|xue as tchaxa)

9348v, 9359-9361, 9378