The Hyena's revenge

The Hyena's revenge

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Lion, the Jackal, the Chersina angulata, and the Hyena. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-25. 8232-8251). </i>The Lion and the Jackal throw mud at each other and as a result the Lion sits blinded at the water. The |go |go'ken (<i>Chersina angulata, </i>or angulate tortoise) wipes his eyes clean and the Lion eats her, putting her head into his bag. |go |go'ken's husband, the Hyena, offers the Lion some soup and puts the pot over the Lion's head and kills him.

1) p.8231v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) pp.8234v-8235v: see <i>An ostrich eggshell, if left open, will attract snakes</i>, 3) p.8235v: what the people call a lion and its movements, 4) p.8236v: the name of a woman; what is said when the white hair of the springbok is 'up'; on 'dipping up' water when it has rained, 5) p.8241v &amp; 8242v: sorrow and grief (what the |xam and white men say); the drinking of soup, 6) p.8247v: brave men and cowards, 7) p.8250v: a man Tsatsi (|han≠kass'o's maternal grandfather) told |han≠kass'o about, 8) This story is found in Book VIII-25

story

8 February 1879 (started)

History (Early Race)

teasing person (and the Hyena's revenge), teasing person (what |xam call), teasing person (the Jackal is), Jackal (sings and throws mud quickly), Jackal (is a teasing person), Jackal (his mud fight with the Lion), Jackal (is a person of the Early Race), Jackal (and the Hyena's revenge), Hyena (kills the Lion using a cooking pot), Hyena (grieves and cries), Hyena (his revenge), Hyena (the Lion kills his wife Auru, the |go |go'ken or Tortoise), Hyena (is a person of the Early Race), Hyena (tricks the Lion), Lion (the Hyena puts his body in a tree), Lion (his 'eyes burning burst', killing him), Lion (is tricked by the Hyena), Lion (his mud fight with the Jackal), Lion (is blinded by mud), Lion (sings and throws mud slowly), Lion (is a person of the Early Race), Lion (and the Hyena's revenge), Lion (kills the Hyena's wife Auru, the |go |go'ken or Tortoise), Lion (puts the |go |go'ken's head in his bag), Lion (his head is burnt in the cooking pot), Lion (is killed by the Hyena), revenge (the Hyena's), Tortoise (the |go |go'ken or Chersina angulata, or angulate tortoise), Tortoise (the Lion kills and eats her), Tortoise (is the Hyena's wife), Tortoise (her name is Auru), Tortoise (her head is placed in the Lion's bag: 'like darkness, at the mouth of the bag'), Tortoise (is a person of the Early Race), grief (|xam terms for), grief (the |xam say 'in sorrow'), grief (what white men call), grief (felt by the Hyena), grief (and the Hyena's revenge), darkness (what |xam say about), darkness ('is not a little black'), darkness (the |go |go'ken or Tortoise's head in the bag which resembles), darkness (and the Hyena's revenge), pot (the cooking pot put by Hyena on the Lion's head), pot (and the Hyena's revenge), pot (and the death of the Lion), pot (and the drinking of soup), soup (methods of drinking), soup (and the use of a cooking pot), soup (and the Hyena's revenge), Early Race (or the First Bushmen), Early Race (the Lion, the Jackal, the Tortoise and the Hyena are people of), Early Race (and the Hyena's revenge), name (of the Tortoise, the Hyena's wife), name (and the Hyena's revenge), name (the |go |go'ken or Chersina angulata, or angulate tortoise)

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