|xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Contributor

!nanni (XI)

Summary

|xue journeys to his country (and his mother's and father's country) and searches for his father. He hears two people coming, so he becomes many <i>!naxane</i> leaves. The people see |xue's fire and search for him and |xue changes into <i>!naxane</i> fruit. The people want to eat the fruit, but |xue becomes many butterflies and the people run away. |xue changes back to a |xue-child and lies down, crying for the people to pick him up. The people hide from |xue. |xue stops being the Sun but becomes a little fly, and then a large black butterfly. He calls for the women to pour their (women's) milk into his eye, but they pour badly and |xue can only see from one eye. |xue 'works' rain to fall on the women. He sounds a |ou's horn (the |ou is a small buck, probably a steenbok) and 'works' fire and the fire burns for many months. |xue climbs a palm tree and sleeps at the top of it. |xue's wife chops the tree down despite his protests. [This story was supposed to 'be continued' (page 9616v) but appears not to have been.]

Comments

1) p.9601v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu), 2) This story is found in Book XI & XII-8

Type

story

Date

September (started) - 25 November 1880

Category

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Keyword

|xue ( journeys to his country )

|xue ( laughs at the women )

|xue ( works, or commands, the rain )

|xue ( sounds on a |ou's horn )

|xue ( works fire and burns the grass )

|xue ( the women pour their milk into his eye )

|xue ( breaks his firestick )

|xue ( searches for the women )

|xue ( sleeps in a palm tree )

|xue ( eats palm-fruit )

|xue ( and his wife )

|xue ( and the women )

|xue ( his wife chops down his tree )

|xue ( the people are afraid of him )

|xue ( the people crawl away from him on hands and knees )

|xue ( the people run away from him )

|xue ( becomes, or works, many !naxane leaves, !naxane fruit, butterflies, a |xue-child, a little fly, a large black butterfly, is |xue again, the Sun, the Moon and fire )

|xue ( cries as a child )

|xue ( wants to be 'taken up' )

|xue ( journeys to his father's country )

|xue ( searches for his father )

|xue ( as !naxane )

|xue ( and butterflies )

|xue ( and people who are afraid )

|xue ( is feared )

|xue ( he works, or makes, many things )

|xue ( cries )

|xue ( hides and is searched for )

|xue ( becomes different things on different days )

|xue ( resembles many things )

|xue ( his appearance )

|xue ( he is little, and not handsome )

|xue ( he resembles the Moon )

|xue ( he is red like the Sun )

|xue ( his doings )

|xue ( his transformations )

|xue ( changes at sunrise and sunset )

transformation ( of |xue )

transformation ( |xue works, or makes, many things )

transformation ( |xue becomes different things )

transformation ( |xue's changes )

transformation ( becomes, or works, many !naxane leaves, !naxane fruit, butterflies, a |xue-child, a little fly, a large black butterfly, is |xue again, the Sun, the Moon and fire )

plants ( !naxane )

plants ( palm )

plants ( !kun names of )

plants ( |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid )

country ( |xue's mother's and father's )

country ( |xue's )

country ( |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid )

people ( who are afraid )

people ( |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid )

women ( their milk and |xue )

women ( |xue as !naxane and butterflies and with people who are afraid )

wife ( |xue's )