The Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman: a creation legend

The Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman: a creation legend

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Tamme (XII)

According to Tamme's people, |xue is Hu'-we and also the Hare (who creates things). The Hare puts the person he has made into an antelope-skin bag (there are four bags and four kinds of people, each speaking different languages). He takes one bag of people and throws it far away. He throws a bag of thread or string far away so that the people may catch and eat antelope. At sunrise |xue comes to him and says that the Hare is a mere hare and must behave like a mere hare. The Hare says he is also |xue and speaks !kun (he says this somewhat peevishly, as he seems to feel that he has been doing so all along). |xue tells the Hare to put food into a bag for the people, but the Hare refuses to feed them, saying |xue must do so with his own food. |xue throws bags with food and with a bow and arrows to the !kun's country and tells them to shoot the Hare.

1) p.9893v: Tamme heard this from his father (||namme-sso'-yo); the names of some of Tamme's relations (who passed down the story), 2) p.9938opp: (October 1881) a note added by !nanni concerning going into 'another country', 3) p.9942v: (22 March 1882) words and sentences concerning killing the Damara and strong, grown-up !kun, 4) p.9898v: (30 September 1881) Tamme names different groups of !kun: this includes the names of the groups of !kun that Tamme, |uma and !nanni belong to (||koo yau, ≠ka'o yau, and ||noo yau), 5) See also <i>The Moon and the Hare and |xue</i> (Tamme) and also the |xam story <i>The Moon and the little Hare</i> (in Book II-6) for other examples of narratives in which the Hare who fears death appears, 6) This story is found in Books XI, XII-11 &amp; XII-12

story

August - October 1881, 22 March 1882 (finished; one sentence added)

Words and sentences

History (Early Race)

History (personal)

|xue (is Hu'-we), |xue (is the Hare), |xue (his names), |xue (is 'two'), |xue (and why the Bushmen kill hares), |xue (the Hare fears him), |xue (his speech with the Hare), |xue (tells the Hare to stop crying and fearing death), |xue (gives the Bushmen weapons to shoot the Hare), |xue (his bags), |xue (the great), |xue (and the Hare's objection), |xue (tells the Hare he is a mere hare), |xue (gives the Bushmen food and weapons), |xue (and the creation of Bushmen), |xue (and the Early Race of Bushmen), |xue (and the Hare, the Antelope and the Bushman), creation (of death), creation (of the Bushmen), creation (of four kinds of Bushmen), creation (and the Early Race of Bushmen), creation (a legend of the !kun concerning), creation (and |xue), creation (and the Hare), creation (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), Early Race (and the time when there were no Bushmen), Early Race (and the creation of the Bushmen), Early Race (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), Tamme (the different groups of Bushmen that he, !nanni and |uma belong to), !kun (names of 'different kinds' given by Tamme), names (of groups of !kun that !nanni, Tamme and |uma belong to), Bushman groups (names of different, given by Tamme), Bushman groups (that !nanni, Tamme and |uma belong to), Hare (fears |xue), Hare (creates things), Hare (and his speech with |xue), Hare (why the Bushmen kill hares), Hare (cries and fears death), Hare (|xue tells him to stop fearing death), Hare (says the Bushmen smell badly), Hare (|xue gives the Bushmen weapons to shoot hares with), Hare (his bags), Hare (and the creation of Bushmen), Hare (is |xue), Hare (is not a mere hare), Hare (objects to |xue), Hare (speaks Bushman), Hare (sleeps in a grass house), Hare (puts Bushmen into bags and throws them far away), Hare (gives the Bushmen food and thread), Hare (gives the Bushmen thread to snare antelope with), Hare (does not like Bushmen), Hare (his divining pieces), Hare (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), divining (the Hare's pieces), divining (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), divining (the Hare's pieces are made of giraffe's skin), bags (and the creation of the Bushmen), bags (|xue's and the Hare's), bags (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), Antelope (they created themselves), Antelope (and the creation of the Bushmen), Antelope (and the Hare and |xue), Antelope (the Hare throws them into a forest country for the Bushmen to snare and eat), Antelope (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), death (and |xue's speech to the Hare), death (the Hare who fears death and |xue), death (of the Hare), death (why Bushmen kill hares), death (creation of), death (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), speech (|xue's to the Hare), name (|xue or Hu'-we), name (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), skin (giraffe-skin bag containing the Hare's divining pieces), weapons (given to the Bushmen by |xue in his bag), food (given to the Bushmen by |xue in his bag), food (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman), country (of the Bushmen), country (|xue throws bags with food and weapons into the Bushmen's), country (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman)

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