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Story: ||gan-a (spirits or dreams)

Title

||gan-a (spirits or dreams)

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Summary

The !kun call spirits (or dreams) ||gan-a. Other people in their country (namely the Makoba and the Ovaherero) call them different things when they speak of them.

Comments

1) This story is found in Book XI & XII-5

Contributors

!nanni (XI), Tamme (XII)

Date

17 February 1880

Categories

Custom and daily life, Relations with others

Keywords

spirits (are called ||gan-a) , spirits (or dreams) , spirits (names for) , spirits (what the Makoba call them) , spirits (what the Ovaherero call them) , ||gan-a (what the !kun call spirits or dreams) , ||gan-a (what other peoples in !kun country call them) , dreams (are spirits) , dreams (are called spirits, or ||gan-a by the !kun) , names (used by the Ovaherero for spirits or dreams) , names (used by the !kun for spirits or dreams) , names (used by the Makoba for spirits or dreams) , Makoba (what they call spirits or dreams) , !kun (what they call spirits or dreams) , Ovaherero (what they call spirits or dreams) , peoples (different, in !kun country) , peoples (what Makoba and Ovaherero call spirits or dreams)

Story Pages

9333

Page Images

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_113