Rainmaking (a version by Dia!kwain)

Rainmaking (a version by Dia!kwain)

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>An account of rain-making by means of dragging a water-animal over the land, in illustration of a Bushman painting copied by Mr J.M. Orpen (</i>Cape Monthly Magazine<i> for July, 1874, frontispiece), was given, in the Katkop dialect, by Dia!kwãin, who had it from his mother (BXXVII. 2540-2608). The beginning of this was repeated by him (L V.-3. 4075-4085), and two other accounts of rain-making were also given by him (L V.-3. 4086-4121).</i> Rainmakers (<i>!giten</i>) lead out a waterbull and kill it on the place where it must rain (note on p.4077v: 'The water's bull's blood is water'. Its flesh and blood are thrown onto the places where the rain must fall); how the people should behave if they want the rain to fall.

1) p.4074v: Dia!kwain's parents told him about the colour of the waterbull's horns (black at the bottom and white at the top, as if scraped); the name of an onion-like plant, the root of which is eaten by people, 2) p.4077v: the waterbull's blood is water, 3) See also <i>What happened when the thong (with which they were pulling at the Water's Bull) broke </i>or<i> Kko-kkoro's story</i> and <i>A rain story </i>and<i> Rainmaking: another story of it </i>and<i> Rainmaking</i>, 4) This story is found in Book V-3

story

14 January 1875 (started)

The Rain and Rain's water

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