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Story: The Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman: a creation legend
Title
The Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman: a creation legend
Collection
Summary
According to Tamme's people, |xue is Hu'-we and also the Hare (who creates things). The Hare puts the person he has made into an antelope-skin bag (there are four bags and four kinds of people, each speaking different languages). He takes one bag of people and throws it far away. He throws a bag of thread or string far away so that the people may catch and eat antelope. At sunrise |xue comes to him and says that the Hare is a mere hare and must behave like a mere hare. The Hare says he is also |xue and speaks !kun (he says this somewhat peevishly, as he seems to feel that he has been doing so all along). |xue tells the Hare to put food into a bag for the people, but the Hare refuses to feed them, saying |xue must do so with his own food. |xue throws bags with food and with a bow and arrows to the !kun's country and tells them to shoot the Hare.
Comments
1) p.9893v: Tamme heard this from his father (||namme-sso'-yo); the names of some of Tamme's relations (who passed down the story), 2) p.9938opp: (October 1881) a note added by !nanni concerning going into 'another country', 3) p.9942v: (22 March 1882) words and sentences concerning killing the Damara and strong, grown-up !kun, 4) p.9898v: (30 September 1881) Tamme names different groups of !kun: this includes the names of the groups of !kun that Tamme, |uma and !nanni belong to (||koo yau, ≠ka'o yau, and ||noo yau), 5) See also The Moon and the Hare and |xue (Tamme) and also the |xam story The Moon and the little Hare (in Book II-6) for other examples of narratives in which the Hare who fears death appears, 6) This story is found in Books XI, XII-11 & XII-12
Contributors
Date
August – October 1881, 22 March 1882 (finished; one sentence added)
Categories
Words and sentences, History (Early Race), History (personal)
Keywords
|xue (is Hu'-we) , |xue (is the Hare) , |xue (his names) , |xue (is 'two') , |xue (and why the Bushmen kill hares) , |xue (the Hare fears him) , |xue (his speech with the Hare) , |xue (tells the Hare to stop crying and fearing death) , |xue (gives the Bushmen weapons to shoot the Hare) , |xue (his bags) , |xue (the great) , |xue (and the Hare's objection) , |xue (tells the Hare he is a mere hare) , |xue (gives the Bushmen food and weapons) , |xue (and the creation of Bushmen) , |xue (and the Early Race of Bushmen) , |xue (and the Hare, the Antelope and the Bushman) , creation (of death) , creation (of the Bushmen) , creation (of four kinds of Bushmen) , creation (and the Early Race of Bushmen) , creation (a legend of the !kun concerning) , creation (and |xue) , creation (and the Hare) , creation (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , Early Race (and the time when there were no Bushmen) , Early Race (and the creation of the Bushmen) , Early Race (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , Tamme (the different groups of Bushmen that he, !nanni and |uma belong to) , !kun (names of ‘different kinds’ given by Tamme) , names (of groups of !kun that !nanni, Tamme and |uma belong to) , Bushman groups (names of different, given by Tamme) , Bushman groups (that !nanni, Tamme and |uma belong to) , Hare (fears |xue) , Hare (creates things) , Hare (and his speech with |xue) , Hare (why the Bushmen kill hares) , Hare (cries and fears death) , Hare (|xue tells him to stop fearing death) , Hare (says the Bushmen smell badly) , Hare (|xue gives the Bushmen weapons to shoot hares with) , Hare (his bags) , Hare (and the creation of Bushmen) , Hare (is |xue) , Hare (is not a mere hare) , Hare (objects to |xue) , Hare (speaks Bushman) , Hare (sleeps in a grass house) , Hare (puts Bushmen into bags and throws them far away) , Hare (gives the Bushmen food and thread) , Hare (gives the Bushmen thread to snare antelope with) , Hare (does not like Bushmen) , Hare (his divining pieces) , Hare (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , divining (the Hare's pieces) , divining (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , divining (the Hare's pieces are made of giraffe's skin) , bags (and the creation of the Bushmen) , bags (|xue's and the Hare's) , bags (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , Antelope (they created themselves) , Antelope (and the creation of the Bushmen) , Antelope (and the Hare and |xue) , Antelope (the Hare throws them into a forest country for the Bushmen to snare and eat) , Antelope (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , death (and |xue's speech to the Hare) , death (the Hare who fears death and |xue) , death (of the Hare) , death (why Bushmen kill hares) , death (creation of) , death (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , speech (|xue's to the Hare) , name (|xue or Hu'-we) , name (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , skin (giraffe-skin bag containing the Hare's divining pieces) , weapons (given to the Bushmen by |xue in his bag) , food (given to the Bushmen by |xue in his bag) , food (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman) , country (of the Bushmen) , country (|xue throws bags with food and weapons into the Bushmen's) , country (the Hare, |xue, the Antelope and the Bushman)
Story Pages
9894-9901, 9932-9937, 9938-9943
