Moon and stars: an incantation

Moon and stars: an incantation

Wilhelm Bleek notebooks

|a!kunta (Stoffel) (I)

Various statements are given with regard to the nature and movements of the celestial bodies. The first of these treats of the Moon and Stars, ending with the "Bushman-rice" Star Canopus (B I. 291-294... An incantation to the Moon and stars.

1) This story is found in Book I

story

1871

Poetry

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Moon (and stars), Moon (incantation to), Moon (actions of), Moon (waxes and wanes), Moon (lives and dies), Moon (the place where it comes), heavens (an incantation to the Moon and stars), clouds (an incantation to the Moon and stars), stars (incantation to the Moon and), stars (doings of), stars (actions of), stars ('little'), stars ('woman'), stars (the colour of), stars (the Moon and), stars (an incantation to), stars (follow the Moon), stars (walk in heaven), stars (female), stars (the gender of), stars (the child of), stars (red), stars (the daughter of), stars (the 'Bushman-rice' star Canopus), springbok (and an incantation to the Moon and stars), ostrich (and an incantation to the Moon and stars), gemsbok (and an incantation to the Moon and stars), incantation (to the Moon and stars), incantation (song), incantation (poetry), incantation (prayer), incantation (verse), child (the star's), child (incantation to the Moon and stars), song (incantation to the Moon and stars), poetry (incantation to the Moon and stars), verse (incantation to the Moon and stars), prayer (incantation to the Moon and stars), prayer (for food), food (and an incantation to the Moon and stars)

291-295