Horns burnt for rain

Horns burnt for rain

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>Horns to be burnt, when the weather looks very threatening. (L VIII.-23. 8030 and 8031).</i> The people burn the outer layer of the springbok's horn to make the rain-clouds disperse when they see that they threaten to bring angry rain ('make war').

1) p.8029v: (4 December 1878) |han≠kass'o heard this story from his maternal grandfather (Tsatsi); the removal of skin from horns, 2) p.8030v: the scent of the burning horn rises in the smoke and disperses the rain-clouds, 3) This story is found in Book VIII-23

story

4 December 1878 (started)

The Rain and Rain's water

Custom and daily life

Artefact and dress

horns (their scent 'does not smell nicely'), horns (the smoke of disperses rain-clouds), horns (are burnt for rain), horns (their outer layer or outer covering is burnt), horns (are burnt to divide rain-clouds), rain (when angry it 'makes war'), rain (its clouds become green), rain (its darkness resembles night), rain (horns are burnt to divide or divide its clouds), springbok (their horns are burnt to disperse the rain-clouds), clouds (rain-clouds), clouds (horns burnt to disperse or divide), rain-clouds ('wax green'), rain-clouds (horns are burnt to divide and disperse), smoke (from burnt horn divides rain-clouds)

8030-8031