The Mantis and Koro-tuiten

The Mantis and Koro-tuiten

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Mantis and Kóro-tuíten. The Mantis learns from Kóro-tuíten how to obtain 'Bushman-rice' (i.e. larvae of the ants) with ease; but, acting ungratefully towards his instructor, he soon loses his newly acquired power. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-10. 6885-6939). A note states that Kóro-tuíten was formerly a man of the early race (L VIII.-10. 6885 rev.). 'Bushman rice' may be dug by both men and women. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-10. 6888 rev., note). </i>|kaggen (the Mantis) is out hunting when he comes across Koro-tuiten, who flies down into a 'Bushman-rice' hole and carries out a kaross full of 'Bushman-rice' (ant larvae). |kaggen asks Koro-tuiten to anoint him with its perspiration so he too can get lots of 'Bushman-rice'. |kaggen breaks all his things (including his digging-stick), but gets a kaross full of 'Bushman rice'. He returns home and goes out to meet Koro-tuiten again, and fills many karosses of 'Bushman-rice'. Koro-tuiten asks him to divide his 'Bushman-rice', but |kaggen refuses. The next day when he tries to dive into the earth he crushes his brow, because the earth is now hard.

1) Date on p.6913: 20 May, 2) p.6884v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an) who heard it from her own people; about the <i>koro-tuiten</i> bird, 3) p.6887v: on anointing another with one's own perspiration, 4) p.6888v: see <i>The digging out of 'Bushman rice'</i>, 5) p.6891v: how |kaggen (the Mantis) breaks his things, 6) pp.6892v-6893v: see <i>Springbok horns</i>, 7) pp.6923v-6924v: see <i>Feathered arrows and poison</i>, 8) See also |<i>kuamman-a, accompanied by the Mantis and the young Ichneumon, visits the house of the |ku</i> or <i>The Mantis and the Proteles</i>, 9) This story is found in Book VIII-10

story

May 1878

|kaggen (the Mantis)

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