Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ǂkasin and then by Dia!kwain

Metadata

Title

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

ǂkasin (Klaas Katkop) (IV)

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

Summary

...the Moon's mother, who, according to the first version (begun by ǂkásin, but mainly related by Dia!kwãin), died in consequence of the wrong message delivered to men by the Hare; whereupon the angered Moon split the Hare's mouth with a stick. (L IV.-4. 3882-3885.) A story about the origin of death in which the Moon beats the Hare for changing the Moon's story around and not telling it properly.

Comments

1) There are three versions of this story in this notebook (IV-4); see also Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by Dia!kwain and Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version by ǂkasin, 2) p.3882 opp: the first page of this story is told by ǂkasin, who heard it from his mother (kwa ǂko): it is told from the Moon's point of view, 3) p.3882v: Dia!kwain takes over the telling of this story from the opposite page (p.3883); he heard it from his mother (ǂkamme-an), 4) This story is found in Book IV-4

Type

story

Date

22 January 1874 (started)

Category

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Keyword

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