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Story: |xue, his father and changes
Title
|xue, his father and changes
Collection
Summary
|xue is water, a lizard, grass, a |nu-erre bird, a dead elephant, a buffalo, a tsan, an Omuherero and a snake (a ||ge). |xue makes reeds at the water and grabs one of the woodpigeons. |xue becomes |xue and rises up and grabs the bitten woodpigeon and plucks out its feathers, putting them on his head. |xue puts the woodpigeon's body on hot embers and eats it. He hears an Ovaherero and hides. |xue flies away to his mother's country where he sees his father. |xue's mother and father become afraid of him and run away. |xue chases his father, all the while loudly speaking the Berg Damara language. |xue fears the large black reeds where his father hides. |xue sits and drinks water from a little hole and cries for his father. His father sees him, but leaves because |xue is an Omuherero. |xue searches for his father and cries when he does not find him.
Comments
1) p.9403v: !nanni heard this story from his paternal grandfather (Karu); for an illustration of this story see !nanni's picture of 10 April 1880 picturing a smoking |xue and some ≠ne≠nebbi or woodpigeons (NLLB_D_!n024), 2) p.9404v: (16 June 1880) !nanni describes an errand he ran on the previous day to Dr. Stewart, 3) p.9410v: (!nanni) 'When the rain comes, the wind is great, and when the rain goes away, the wind is small'; 'It is not the earth's water, but is the sky's water', 4) p.9416v: see |uma and Da: the names of their parents, 5) p.9428v: Tamme thinks |uma is the 'child of |xue'; a certain fungus (gabaka) which women eat and men fear, 6) This story is found in Book XI & XII-6
Contributors
Date
11 April (started) – 24 April (finished on or about) 1880
Categories
Transformation, Relations with others
Keywords
|xue (his father and changes) , |xue (becomes a ||ge or snake) , |xue (his father steals silently after him) , |xue (becomes an Omuherero) , |xue (fears the reeds) , |xue (becomes another kind of Bushman) , |xue (speaks the Berg Damara's language) , |xue (becomes a tsan and bites his father) , |xue (becomes |xue, a man) , |xue (becomes a buffalo) , |xue (searches for his father) , |xue (cries) , |xue (his mother) , |xue (his country) , |xue (becomes a dead elephant and many birds eat him) , |xue (his father's country) , |xue (the name of his father's country) , |xue (his father fears him because he is dead) , |xue (is not really dead and rises up) , |xue (calls to his father) , |xue (dies) , |xue (becomes |xue and dies) , |xue (carries a little bag) , |xue (makes fire) , |xue (he works things) , |xue (he becomes many things) , |xue (his doings, or works) , |xue (he changes) , |xue (is water) , |xue (is a goru, or lizard) , |xue (makes reeds) , |xue (he 'worked large grass') , |xue (grabs a woodpigeon as grass) , |xue (becomes small grass and bites the woodpigeon) , |xue (becomes |xue, a Bushman) , |xue (puts the woodpigeon's feathers on his head) , |xue (eats the woodpigeon) , |xue (becomes a little bird, or |nu-erre) , |xue (and the Ovaherero) , |xue (his tears fall on the ground) , |xue (and the Omuherero) , |xue (becomes many |nu-erre birds) , |xue (hides) , |xue (is searched for) , |xue (his transformations) , transformation (|xue, his father and changes) , transformation (and the death of |xue) , transformation (|xue becomes many things) , transformation (|xue makes, or works, many things) , transformation (|xue becomes an Omuherero, another kind of Bushman, a tsan, |xue- a man, a buffalo, a dead elephant, water, a goru- lizard, a little bird- |nu-erre, a ||ge or snake, many |nu-erre birds) , resurrection (|xue, his father and changes) , resurrection (of |xue) , resurrection (|xue rises up and changes form) , death (|xue, his father and changes) , death (of |xue) , death (|xue dies and changes form) , death (and |xue's resurrection) , death (and |xue's transformation) , plants (the !khu thorn-bush and its edible fruit) , plants (!kun names of) , plants (that |xue becomes) , plants (|xue, his father and changes) , Omuherero (|xue becomes) , Omuherero (|xue, his father and changes) , woodpigeon (|xue wears its feathers) , woodpigeon (|xue, his father and changes) , Damara (|xue speaks Berg Damara's language) , Damara (|xue, his father and changes) , country (|xue's) , country (|xue, his father and changes) , country (|xue's father's) , country (|xue's mother's) , father (|xue's) , father (|xue, his father and changes) , Ovaherero (and |xue) , Ovaherero (|xue, his father and changes) , language (|xue speaks Berg Damara) , language (|xue, his father and changes) , bag (|xue's) , bag (|xue, his father and changes) , names (of plants and animals that |xue becomes) , names (|xue, his father and changes)
Story Pages
9404-9430
