Mode of addressing rain

Mode of addressing rain

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>Clouds. Preparations to be made for the coming rain; the springbok to be watched for, etc. (L VIII.-23. 8018-8029). </i>The old men address the rain and the rain-clouds. The rain-clouds 'go along and are becoming black' ('jackal-clouds'). People fear the rain while on the hunting ground and desire the rain thats brings the springbok.

1) p.8020v: what people say to clouds, 2) p.8021v: the Latin and Dutch names for the bush used to build rain-shelters, 3) p.8022v: the names of some people who appear in the story, 4) p.8023v: the |xam names for different clouds (including 'jackal-clouds'), 5) p.8024v: (11 December 1878) words and sentences (sounds), 6) p.8025v: the springbok love the rain, 7) p.8026v: fearing the rain on the hunting-ground, 8) p.8027v: the ostrich feathers used to make the brushes with which they drive the springbok, 9) p.8028v: on 'beating game' (driving springbok) or 'springbok's beating', 10) This story is found in Book VIII-23

story

27 November 1878 (started)

The Rain and Rain's water

Custom and daily life

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