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