!ga ka Kkumm. The Frog's story (Or, The Frog, the Blue Crane, the Beetle, and !kuommain |ka ||kau) (Part I)

!ga ka Kkumm. The Frog's story (Or, The Frog, the Blue Crane, the Beetle, and !kuommain |ka ||kau) (Part I)

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Frog, the Blue Crane, the Frog's husband, and the Beetle. By /han≠kass'o (L VIII.-32. 8812-8820). </i>A tale of the Early Race in which the Frog (!ga) marries !kuommain |ka ||kau, but is embarrassed to relieve herself in front of him. Her body swells up and the Blue Crane makes a hole which the Frog vomits into. !kuommain |ka ||kau returns home and asks where the child is (his swollen wife had appeared as if pregnant). !kuommain |ka ||kau jumps up and runs away.

1) This is part 1 of the Blue Crane's story, 2) p.8811v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi); he says it should precede the Blue Crane's story, 3) p.8814v: |han≠kass'o's comments about the Beetle who resembles |kaggen, 4) See also<i> How the Blue Crane vainly sought for !kuommain |ka ||kau, was killed and eaten by the Lions, and restored to life by means of one of the bones of the Mantis </i>(Part 2) 5) This story is found in Book VIII-32

story

17 - 18 November 1879

|kaggen (the Mantis)

Frog ( !ga ka Kkumm or her story )

Frog ( called !ga )

Frog ( is ashamed )

Frog ( will not relieve herself and swells up )

Frog ( marries !kuommain |ka ||kau )

Frog ( is the Blue Crane's 'mate' )

Frog ( vomits into a hole )

Frog ( her husband runs away )

Frog ( her husband is !kuommain |ka ||kau )

Frog ( looks pregnant )

!kuommain |ka ||kau ( !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story )

!kuommain |ka ||kau ( is the Frog's husband )

!kuommain |ka ||kau ( runs away )

!kuommain |ka ||kau ( disappears into a flat stone )

!kuommain |ka ||kau ( the Beetle's smell makes him run away )

!kuommain |ka ||kau ( thinks his wife the Frog is pregnant )

!kuommain |ka ||kau ( !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story )

Beetle ( !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story )

Beetle ( called dju )

Beetle ( resembles |kaggen )

Beetle ( flies and walks )

Beetle ( smells like vomit )

Beetle ( goes into the Frog's vomit )

Beetle ( wants to marry !kuommain |ka ||kau )

Beetle ( her smell frightens away !kuommain |ka ||kau )

Blue Crane ( !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story )

Blue Crane ( is the Frog's 'mate' )

Blue Crane ( makes a hole for the Frog to vomit into )

Blue Crane ( searches for the Frog's husband, !kuommain |ka ||kau )

Blue Crane ( snatches and misses !kuommain |ka ||kau )

vomit ( !ga ka Kkumm or the Frog's story )

vomit ( the Beetle goes into the Frog's )

vomit ( the smell chases away the Frog's husband, !kuommain |ka ||kau )

vomit ( the Frog's )

Early Race ( or First Bushmen )

Early Race ( the Frog, the Blue Crane, the Beetle and !kuommain |ka ||kau are people of )

|kaggen ( and the Frog's story )

name ( the Frog is called !ga )

name ( Beetle is called dju )

name ( the Frog's husband is !kuommain |ka ||kau )

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