Notebooks
Story: Moon and Sun and Hares
Title
Moon and Sun and Hares
Collection
Summary
The Moon instructs the Sun to go to a certain place. The Moon says that he is the Moon and that he and the Sun do not listen to the Hare. The Hare is torn between laughter at the Moon's beauty and tears for those who die outright. The Hare and his wife quarrel and the Moon becomes heartsore and vanishes, making the night very dark. The She-Hare calls her husband who steals up to her in the form of a jackal and catches her. The Moon seizes the Hare and rips off his jackal-skin, which he gives to the jackal. The Hare insists that he is a jackal. [It says 'to be continued' at the bottom of page 10117 but it is not clear where this occurs.]
Comments
1) p.10 071v: !nanni heard this from his paternal grandfather (Karu), 2) p.10 105v: see !nanni's drawing of the |kui, 3) See also The Moon and the Hare and |xue (Tamme) and End of Moon and Hare story (!nanni) and Story of the Moon and the Hare: a version at first by ≠kasin and then by Dia!kwain (in |xam Book IV-4) and The Moon and the little Hare (in |xam Book II-6), 4) This story is found in Book XI
Contributors
Date
11 October – 8 December 1880
Categories
Celestial bodies and aeroscopy
Keywords
Moon (and Sun and Hares) , Moon (and the creation of death) , Moon (instructs Sun) , creation (of death) , creation (a !kun story of) , creation (Moon and Sun and Hare) , creation (rips off the Hare's jackal-skin) , creation (gives skin to jackals) , Sun (Moon and Sun and Hares) , Sun (and the creation of death) , Sun (the Moon instructs) , Hare (Moon and Sun and Hares) , Hare (and the creation of death) , Hare (cries for those who die outright) , Hare (quarrels with his wife) , Hare (She-Hare) , Hare (in form of a jackal) , Hare (insists he is a jackal) , death (Moon and Sun and Hares) , death (its creation) , death (the Hare and his kind decay and die outright) , death (the Sun and Moon only die a little) , death (of people) , creation (of death) , creation (Moon and Sun and Hares) , jackal (the Hare in the form of) , jackal (the Moon gives jackal its skin) , jackal (the Hare insists he is one) , jackal (Moon and Sun and Hares)
Story Pages
10 072-10 117
