The Mantis and ||khwai-hemm

The Mantis and ||khwai-hemm

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>...the visit of //khwái-hemm (the All-devourer) to the Mantis. The latter, by means of the Porcupine, invites //khwái-hemm to visit him. He comes, and presently swallows /kwámmana and the Mantis. They are rescued by young /kwámmana and another child, who cut the monster open (L VIII.-20. 7812-7816, 22. 7906-7956). //khwái-hemm is stated, by /han≠kass'o (on the information of his mother /kábbi-an), to be the father of the Porcupine (L VIII.-10. 6934 rev., note).</i> |kaggen (the Mantis) tells the Porcupine (his son's wife) to go to her father (||khwai-hemm), but she is afraid because there is not enough to feed him. ||khwai-hemm says that he will visit |kaggen, because he must have enough food to offer if he has invited ||khwai-hemm. ||khwai-hemm comes and |kaggen tells him to stop eating things, as there is nothing else to eat. ||khwai-hemm becomes angry and swallows |kwammana and then |kaggen. The children then each cut open a different side of ||khwai-hemm's body, and |kwammana and |kaggen fall out.|kaggen (the Mantis) tells the Porcupine (his son's wife) to go to her father (||khwai-hemm), but she is afraid because there is not enough to feed him. ||khwai-hemm says that he will visit |kaggen, because he must have enough food to offer if he has invited ||khwai-hemm. ||khwai-hemm comes and |kaggen tells him to stop eating things, as there is nothing else to eat. ||khwai-hemm becomes angry and swallows |kwammana and then |kaggen. The children then each cut open a different side of ||khwai-hemm's body, and |kwammana and |kaggen fall out.

1) This story was told to |han≠kass'o by his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) p.7946v: the name of a snake, 3) See also <i>The Mantis takes away the Tick's sheep (including Porcupine's speech concerning the coming of ||khwai-hemm)</i> and <i>The Mantis and the Ticks </i>and<i> Mantis and ||khwai-hemm </i>and<i> The monster ||khwái-hemm's speech to the Mantis and the Mantis's reply</i>, 4) This story is found in Books VIII-20 and VIII-22

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31 October (started on or about) - November 1878

|kaggen (the Mantis)

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