|xue and his father

|xue and his father

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

|xue bites his father, breaking his father's finger. |xue's father goes away. |xue becomes a shana (the fruit of a small tree). The rain falls on him, and he lies down and cries when the rain is over. His father hears him and throws him over his shoulder. |xue cries very loudly so his father puts him down and he follows his father. |xue grabs a little |ou (a little buck, probably a steenbok) from some birds (!kuara). |xue's father roasts some of the meat and leaves for his own country. |xue sits at the fire and cries for his father to carry him. |xue hears his father's laughing and gets up, crying. He becomes rain and tells the rain to pour down on his father. |xue's father beats |xue and tells his wife to give |xue to another person so they can kill him. |xue hears this and cries and his father leaves. |xue follows his father and at sunrise he becomes !naxane. |xue's father puts two of the !naxane into his bag. |xue changes back to |xue and |xue's father searches for the !naxane. |xue climbs a !gua tree and refuses to come down, being afraid of being beaten. |xue's mother slaps him so that he falls from the tree. |xue becomes a lizard (gora) and then a bird (called ||kanna-tatta). [It says 'to be continued' on page 9489v, but it is not clear where the story is taken up.]

1) p.9436v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu); the names of different dress (front-dress and tails); the names for noises made by beating different parts of the body with a knobkerrie, 2) p.9442v: (6 May 1880) the names of dress worn by men and women (short skin apron, long apron, woman's front dress, male's front dress), 3) p.9446v: names for tinder and tinderbox used by the !kun and the Ovaherero; 4) pp.9458v-9468v: see<i> !nanni's uncle, </i>5) p.9460v: the Biriko yau are people who live near the Makoba, 6) p.9472v: names for the times of day, 7) p.9488v: a note about the names of sticks: this relates to !nanni's drawing of 15 June 1880 (see NLLB_D_!n044); !nanni's father's name, 8) This story is found in Book XI &amp; XII-6

story

1 May - 7 June 1880

Transformation

|xue (and his father), |xue (he works, or makes, many things), |xue (his actions and doings), |xue (was not dead), |xue (his blood flowed), |xue (bites his father), |xue (trembles with cold), |xue (and the making of fires), |xue (at sunrise and sunset), |xue (his father leaves him for his own country), |xue (his father searches for and chases him), |xue (he bites his father's finger), |xue (his father laughs at him), |xue (follows his father), |xue (and the !kuara birds), |xue (his mother tells his father to beat him with a large stick), |xue (and his father and the |ou), |xue (his father carries him), |xue (calls for his father), |xue (his father fears him), |xue (fears his father), |xue (his father thinks he is another's child), |xue (his father's name is |xe' ||n'u), |xue (dies), |xue (is eaten as !naxane), |xue (makes the rain fall on his father), |xue (and fire), |xue (and his mother), |xue (is bitten by birds), |xue (is eaten as !naxane by woodpigeons), |xue (is slapped and beaten by his parents), |xue (changes), |xue (becomes many things), |xue (his transformations), |xue (becomes a lizard, rain, shana, !naxane, |xue, another |xue, a bird called ||kanna-tatta), |xue (lies down and cries), |xue (climbs a tree), transformation (|xue and his father), transformation (|xue becomes a lizard, rain, shana, !naxane, |xue, another |xue, a bird called ||kanna-tatta), transformation (of |xue), transformation (|xue works, or makes, many things), transformation (|xue becomes different things), transformation (|xue's changes), resurrection (|xue and his father), resurrection (of |xue), resurrection (and the death of |xue), death (and resurrection), death (|xue lives and dies), death (and |xue's changes), death (|xue dies and is eaten), death (|xue and his father), plants (!kun names of), plants (|xue and his father), plants (shana), plants (!naxane), plants (a !gua tree), parents (|xue's slap and beat him), parents (|xue and his father), country (|xue's father's), country (|xue and his father), name (of |xue's father), name (!kun, of birds, plants and animals), name (|xue and his father), bird (!kun names of), bird (called ||kanna-tatta), bird (|xue and his father), bird (called !kuara), buck (!kun name of), buck (called |ou), buck (|xue and his father)

9437-9438, 9443-9448, 9459-9490, 9489v