Prayer to a star

Prayer to a star

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>Prayer to the Stars. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-28. 8447-8449). Prayer of the narrator's grandfather to the star Canopus. (L VIII.-28. 8452-8458).</i> People pray to the stars so that they will be able to see game (that their dogs will kill for them) on the hunting-ground at night.

1) See also <i>What the stars say</i>, 2) p.8446v: |han≠kass'o observed this himself: he heard his maternal grandfather (Tsatsi) talking to the stars, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-28

story

29 May 1879

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Poetry

prayer (or incantation), prayer (to a star), prayer (asking a star for food), prayer (asking the stars to allow the people to see the game), prayer (asking the stars for their hearts so the people will not go hungry), prayer (asking the stars to take the people's hearts), prayer (to the stars when hungry), hunger (the star's heart will not), hunger (stars seem as if they 'possessed food'), hunger (and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see the game), hunger (and the heart), hunger (and a prayer to the stars for food), hunger (the stars appear to be satisfied), hunger (the stars are large and appear well fed), hunger (and an exchange of hearts), incantation (or prayer to a star), incantation (asking a star for food), incantation (asking the stars to allow the people to see the game), incantation (asking the stars for their hearts so the people will not go hungry), incantation (asking the stars to take the people's hearts), incantation (to the stars when hungry), food (and a prayer to a star), food (hunger), food (the star appears well fed), food (stars seem as if they 'possessed food'), food (asking stars for), food (and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see the game), hearts (the peoples' are hungry), hearts (the stars' appear satisfied), hearts (a prayer asking for the stars' so the people will not hunger), hearts (an exchange of), stars (prayer to a star), stars (their hearts will not hunger), stars (seem as if they 'possessed food'), stars (asking for their hearts), stars (prayers to on account of hunger), stars (their hearts appear to be satisfied), stars (are large and appear well fed), hunting (and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see game), hunting (with dogs at night), game (and a prayer asking the stars to allow the people to see), game (hunting and the stars), game (prayer to a star)

8447-8449