Story of the Moon and the Hare and how the Moon punished the Hare

Story of the Moon and the Hare and how the Moon punished the Hare

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

≠kasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

<i>The veritable Hottentot myth of the 'Origin of Death' is told in the Katkop dialect by ≠kásin, whose father was a Hottentot; and, although the narrator says that he heard the story from his mother /'wá ≠kõ, a Bushwoman, its Hottentot origin can hardly be doubted. Here, the Moon sends the Hare to men with the message of the renewal of life; but it reverses it into a message of death. The angered Moon then heats a stone, and burns the Hare's mouth, causing the harelip. ≠kásin told this story three times; once in a very short version (B XXV. 2361-2364), secondly, in a little longer one (L IV.-4. 3886-3889) and thirdly, in a still more extended one (L IV.-4. 3890-3900).</i> On account of the Hare's actions, people die and do not return to life.

1) ≠kasin heard this from his mother (ko a ≠ko) 2) p.3444v: ≠kasin heard things about death and ascending thoughts from his father and mother; his father heard them from his father, 3) See also <i>The Moon and the Hare </i>and<i> A prayer addressed to the Moon, and another version of the Moon and Hare story</i> and <i>Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain </i>and <i>Moon and Hare: the origin of death</i>, 4) This story is found in Book IV-1

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4 November 1873

History (Early Race)

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