≠kainyatara and the Ostrich

≠kainyatara and the Ostrich

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Ostrich who ran away with #kainyatára and gave him as a husband to her daughter. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII. 30. 8628-8636). </i>A story of the Early Race. The Ostrich snatches up ≠kainyatara and runs off with him. She sets him down next to her daughter 'Yolk' (or <i>≠kariten</i>), introducing him as the girl's new husband because the two resemble each other so strongly.

1) p.8627v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi) and again, when he asked for it, from his mother (|xabbi-an) after his grandmother's death, 2) pp.8628v-8629v: see <i>The reason why the ostrich does not click</i>, 3) p.8629v: all living creatures (including beasts of prey) were formerly people, 4) This story is found in Book VIII-30

story

13 July 1879 (started)

History (Early Race)

Early Race (or the First Bushmen), Early Race (≠kainyatara and the Ostrich are people of), Ostrich (≠kainyatara and), Ostrich (who deceives, catches and gives ≠kainyatara to her daughter), Ostrich (who carries ≠kainyatara on her bosom), Ostrich (≠kainyatara's companions throw sticks at her), Ostrich (her daughter does not live inside a shell and is a person), Ostrich (the appearance of her daughter, 'Yolk'), Ostrich (her song to ≠kainyatara's companions), Ostrich (her daughter is 'Yolk', or ≠kariten), bird (the ≠kainyatara), bird (the appearance of the ≠kainyatara), ≠kainyatara (is caught and given to the Ostrich's daughter), ≠kainyatara (was formerly a person), ≠kainyatara (is taken by the Ostrich to marry her daughter), ≠kainyatara (resembles the Ostrich's daughter, 'Yolk'), ≠kainyatara (his companions throw sticks at the Ostrich), ≠kainyatara (the Ostrich carries him on her bosom), song (that the Ostrich sings to ≠kainyatara's companions), name (≠kainyatara's daughter is 'Yolk', or ≠kariten), name (a bird called the ≠kainyatara)

8628-8636