The reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, the hartebeest, the eland, the quagga, and the springbok

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Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

To this myth [Mantis and the eland, piercing of the bladder] belongs also the account of the reasons for the colours of the gemsbok, hartebeest, eland, quagga, and springbok, given in the Katkop dialect by Día!kwãin (L V.-3. 4071-4074). |kaggen (the Mantis) feeds them various foods taken from and made by different kinds of bees.

Comments

1) p.4071opp: This story was told to Dia!kwain by his mother (≠kammi-an), 2) p.4071v: the name of the chameleon and the bee in Dutch and |xam; the food made by bees is eaten by the eland, 3) p.4072v: the name (≠kau a-ken) of the food made by small bees and eaten by the Quagga, 4) p.4073v: the ||ki or little bees are chewed up still in their cells and the liquid of both is squeezed out and eaten by the Springbok of the story, 5) See also How the Ichneumon discovered what the Mantis did with the honey, 6) This story is found in Book V-3

Type

story

Date

13 January 1875

Category

|kaggen (the Mantis)

Keyword

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