ǂkagara and !haunu

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Title

ǂkagara and !haunu

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Contributor

|hanǂkass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Summary

<i>ǂkágára and !haunu, who fought each other with lightning. By |hanǂkass'o (L VIII.-30 8637-8648). </i>ǂkagara (a bird who was formerly a man) goes to !haunu (who is a rain's person) to take back his younger sister (!haunu's wife) and return her to her parents. There follows a fight (with lightning and thunder) and blood issuing from the nostrils of !haunu.

Comments

1) p.8636v: |hanǂkass'o heard this story from his maternal grandmother (ǂkammi) and his mother (|xabbi-an) after his grandmother's death; the <i>ǂkagara</i> bird; accounting for !haunu's name: he is a rain-sorcerer; 'rain (he) was', 2) p.8637v: names and descriptions of plants and lizards, 3) pp.8641v &amp; 8643v: fighting, 4) p.8642v: see <i>ǂkagara's fight with !haunu in the east</i>, 5) p.8644v: see <i>Lightning which is black, it is that which kills us</i>, 6) This story is found in Book VIII-30

Type

story

Date

24 July 1879 (started)

Category

The Rain and Rain's water

History (Early Race)

Keyword

rain (ǂkagara and !haunu), rain (and ǂkagara's fight with !haunu), rain (!haunu, the rain-sorcerer, is), rain (and thunder and lightning), rain (and buchu), rain (rain-clouds), rain (and related weather), rain (in the east), rain (protection from), rain (and the Early Race), rain (and !haunu's sneezing), rain (!haunu's things which resemble water), sorcerer (rain-sorcerer), sorcerer (called !haunu), sorcerer (who is Rain), bird (called ǂkagara, who was formerly a man), bird (the appearance of the ǂkagara), sneezing (!haunu's), sneezing (and the rain), sneezing (ǂkagara and !haunu), lightning (that thunders), lightning (black, that resembles a gun), lightning (that startles the people), lightning (that is stealthy), lightning (and the rain), lightning (sent by !haunu), lightning (ǂkagara fends it off), lightning (and the weather), lightning (and ǂkagara's fight with !haunu), fight (between and ǂkagara and !haunu), fight (in the east), fight (with lightning), fight (and the rain and weather), clouds (when they were thick), clouds (in the east), clouds (resembled a mountain), clouds ('were lightening'), clouds (and ǂkagara's fight with !haunu), clouds (and the rain), clouds (rain-clouds), thunder (and ǂkagara's fight with !haunu), thunder (and the death of !haunu), thunder (and the rain), weather (when bad), weather (what |hanǂkass'o's grandmother said about), weather (when ǂkagara and !haunu fight in the east), weather (when ǂkagara and !haunu were angry), !haunu (accounting for his name), !haunu (his name resembles mucus), !haunu (sneezes blood), !haunu (his wife carries his things), !haunu (his things resemble water), !haunu (ǂkagara binds up his head), !haunu (dies thundering), !haunu (makes thunder and lightning), !haunu (is the rain), !haunu (a rain's person), !haunu (is a man), !haunu (is a rain-sorcerer), !haunu (is killed by ǂkagara and his lightning), !haunu (his fight with ǂkagara), !haunu (ǂkagara rubs buchu as protection from his thundering), !haunu (is ǂkagara's brother-in-law), ǂkagara (a bird who was formerly a man), ǂkagara (is strong), ǂkagara (kills !haunu with lightning), ǂkagara (makes black lightning), ǂkagara (rescues his sister from !haunu), ǂkagara (his fight with !haunu), ǂkagara (binds up !haunu's head), ǂkagara (rubs buchu), ǂkagara (is rubbed with buchu), buchu (and ǂkagara's fight with !haunu), buchu (as protection from the rain), buchu (as protection from !haunu and his thundering), buchu (ǂkagara rubs it on), names (a bird called ǂkagara), names (ǂkagara and !haunu), plant (buchu, protects against the rain), plant (ǂkagara and !haunu), |hanǂkass'o (what his grandmother said about ǂkagara and !haunu)

Story Pages

8637-8648

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