ǂkainyatara and the Ostrich

ǂkainyatara and the Ostrich

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

|hanǂkass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

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

1) p.8627v: |hanǂkass'o heard this story from his maternal grandmother (ǂkammi) 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 (ǂkainyatara and the Ostrich are people of), Ostrich (ǂkainyatara and), Ostrich (who deceives, catches and gives ǂkainyatara to her daughter), Ostrich (who carries ǂkainyatara on her bosom), Ostrich (ǂkainyatara'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 ǂkainyatara's companions), Ostrich (her daughter is 'Yolk', or ǂkariten), bird (the ǂkainyatara), bird (the appearance of the ǂkainyatara), ǂkainyatara (is caught and given to the Ostrich's daughter), ǂkainyatara (was formerly a person), ǂkainyatara (is taken by the Ostrich to marry her daughter), ǂkainyatara (resembles the Ostrich's daughter, 'Yolk'), ǂkainyatara (his companions throw sticks at the Ostrich), ǂkainyatara (the Ostrich carries him on her bosom), song (that the Ostrich sings to ǂkainyatara's companions), name (ǂkainyatara's daughter is 'Yolk', or ǂkariten), name (a bird called the ǂkainyatara)

8628-8636