Burial (another account)

Burial (another account)

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

!nanni (XI)

When a person dies, the !kun (!nanni's people) do not immediately leave the place of death but leave as a group on another day. In !nanni's maternal grandfather's country, the dead go into the Moon.

1) p.9251v: Lloyd notes that the belief about the moon and the dead came as an answer to a question she had asked the boys comparing this belief to a similar superstition held by the |xam, 2) See also <i>Customs at death</i> and <i>Sleeping in ashes</i> and <i>Burial</i>, 3) This story is found in Book XI &amp; XII-4

story

21 - 22 January 1880

Custom and daily life

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

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