The story of Tssi-!kuara |hin (the Lioness and her adopted daughter)

The story of Tssi-!kuara |hin (the Lioness and her adopted daughter)

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuára-Ihin. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-25. 8084-8169, 8171 and 8172, 25. 8173-8176). </i>The Lioness (in the times of the Early Race) decides to keep a baby girl that she finds and names it Biting-Torn-Away (or Tssi-!kuarra |hin), and she grows up. The Lioness tricks a child into sending her brother to her at night, but his grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau, are also there (they are people and also trees). The Lioness tries to find a way of catching the young man on his own, but Biting-Torn-Away protects him and warns him how to behave around her mother. Whenever the Lioness tells a lie when she is near the fire, !kwa-!kau and !kwa-!kwa crackle from within it, causing her to move away. The Lioness kills a gemsbok and Biting-Torn-Away and the young man go to help her. The Lioness places some of the meat into a thong that she twists around her body, and asks Biting-Torn-Away to help lift her up. While Biting-Torn-Away lifts her mother's arms, the husband stabs her exposed flesh with his knife. The young man returns to his own mother's house, bringing Biting-Torn-Away with him.

1) This story was taken in January 1879 but translated in March and April 1897, 2) p.8084opp: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi) when a child, and also from his mother when older, 3) pp.8169v &amp; 8170: see <i>Words and sentences: names of colours</i> (this page interrupts the story), 4) p.8075v: (22 January 1879) what the |xam call the eclipse of the sun, 6) This story is found in Books VIII-24 and VIII-25

story

9 January 1879 (started, and finished on or about the 19 January)

History (Early Race)

Lioness ( and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

Lioness ( the place where she vanishes )

Lioness ( her head vanishes )

Lioness ( the place where her 'head's little piece shall become black' )

Lioness ( wound up in thong )

Lioness ( is not eaten because she is a person )

Lioness ( Biting-Torn-Away advises her husband on her doings )

Lioness ( people do not see her come )

Lioness ( her actions )

Lioness ( and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

Lioness ( and the timid child )

Lioness ( sings to the children at the water )

Lioness ( bites open a woman and takes her baby )

Lioness ( is killed by Biting-Torn-Away and her husband )

Lioness ( hunts the gemsbok )

Lioness ( raises Biting-Torn-Away as her own )

Lioness ( is a person of the Early Race )

Lioness ( her efforts to steal up on her adopted daughter's husband )

Early Race ( or the First Bushmen )

Early Race ( and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

Early Race ( !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau are trees and people )

Early Race ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

young man ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

young man ( Biting-Torn-Away advises him on the doings of the Lioness )

young man ( must not sleep )

young man ( must understand the Lioness properly )

young man ( stabs and kills the Lioness )

young man ( and his grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

young man ( is Biting-Torn-Away's husband )

young man ( is well educated )

young man ( rescues Biting-Torn-Away )

Biting-Torn-Away ( or Tssi-!kuara |hin, her story )

Biting-Torn-Away ( and her husband, the young man )

Biting-Torn-Away ( is the Lioness's adopted daughter )

Biting-Torn-Away ( her grandmothers are !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau )

Biting-Torn-Away ( was raised and nourished by the Lioness )

Biting-Torn-Away ( the Lioness killed her mother )

Biting-Torn-Away ( is clever )

Biting-Torn-Away ( became a grown-up girl )

Biting-Torn-Away ( protects her husband from the Lioness )

Biting-Torn-Away ( advises her husband on the doings of the Lioness )

Biting-Torn-Away ( helps kill her adopted mother, the Lioness )

trees ( !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau are also people )

trees ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

gemsbok ( hunted by the Lioness )

gemsbok ( killed by the adopted daughter's husband )

gemsbok ( its meat is placed in the thong that trapped the Lioness )

gemsbok ( and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away )

names ( of the adopted daughter of the Lioness )

names ( of the Lioness grandmothers, the trees )

8084-8172, 8173-8176