≠kagara and !haunu

Metadata

Title

≠kagara and !haunu

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

≠kágára and !haunu, who fought each other with lightning. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-30 8637-8648). ≠kagara (a bird who was formerly a man) goes to !haunu (who is a rain's person) to take back his younger sister (!haunu's wife) and return her to her parents. There follows a fight (with lightning and thunder) and blood issuing from the nostrils of !haunu.

Comments

1) p.8636v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi) and his mother (|xabbi-an) after his grandmother's death; the ≠kagara bird; accounting for !haunu's name: he is a rain-sorcerer; 'rain (he) was', 2) p.8637v: names and descriptions of plants and lizards, 3) pp.8641v & 8643v: fighting, 4) p.8642v: see ≠kagara's fight with !haunu in the east, 5) p.8644v: see Lightning which is black, it is that which kills us, 6) This story is found in Book VIII-30

Type

story

Date

24 July 1879 (started)

Category

The Rain and Rain's water

History (Early Race)

Keyword

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