?kainyatara and the Ostrich

?kainyatara and the Ostrich

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|han?kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

<i>The Ostrich who ran away with #kainyatára and gave him as a husband to her daughter. By /han?kass'o (L VIII. 30. 8628-8636). </i>A story of the Early Race. The Ostrich snatches up ?kainyatara and runs off with him. She sets him down next to her daughter 'Yolk' (or <i>?kariten</i>), introducing him as the girl's new husband because the two resemble each other so strongly.

1) p.8627v: |han?kass'o heard this story from his maternal grandmother (?kammi) and again, when he asked for it, from his mother (|xabbi-an) after his grandmother's death, 2) pp.8628v-8629v: see <i>The reason why the ostrich does not click</i>, 3) p.8629v: all living creatures (including beasts of prey) were formerly people, 4) This story is found in Book VIII-30

story

13 July 1879 (started)

History (Early Race)

Early Race (or the First Bushmen), Early Race (?kainyatara and the Ostrich are people of), Ostrich (?kainyatara and), Ostrich (who deceives, catches and gives ?kainyatara to her daughter), Ostrich (who carries ?kainyatara on her bosom), Ostrich (?kainyatara's companions throw sticks at her), Ostrich (her daughter does not live inside a shell and is a person), Ostrich (the appearance of her daughter, 'Yolk'), Ostrich (her song to ?kainyatara's companions), Ostrich (her daughter is 'Yolk', or ?kariten), bird (the ?kainyatara), bird (the appearance of the ?kainyatara), ?kainyatara (is caught and given to the Ostrich's daughter), ?kainyatara (was formerly a person), ?kainyatara (is taken by the Ostrich to marry her daughter), ?kainyatara (resembles the Ostrich's daughter, 'Yolk'), ?kainyatara (his companions throw sticks at the Ostrich), ?kainyatara (the Ostrich carries him on her bosom), song (that the Ostrich sings to ?kainyatara's companions), name (?kainyatara's daughter is 'Yolk', or ?kariten), name (a bird called the ?kainyatara)

8628-8636