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Story: The Anteater's laws (|a!kunta's version)
Title
The Anteater's laws (|a!kunta's version)
Collection
Summary
Accounting for the habits of animals, in which various animals marry their own kind, eat certain things and behave in certain ways, because the Anteater tells them to. We have a separate version of these laws or sayings of the Anteater and Lynx. (L I.–2. 138–150.)
Comments
1) p.147v: the hyena is said to carry eggs in its mane, 2) See also The Anteater, Springbok and Lynx (||kabbo's versions 1 & 2), 3) This story is found in Book I-2
Contributors
Date
8 August 1871 (started)
Categories
Keywords
Anteater (and Lynx) , Anteater (laws of) , Anteater (sayings of) , Anteater (laws regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals) , marriage (the Anteater's laws) , marriage (of own kind) , food (eating habits of animals) , food (prohibitions regarding that eaten by animals) , food (the Anteater's laws) , prohibitions (and Anteater's laws) , prohibitions (and behaviour) , animals (and Anteater's laws) , animals (their habits, diet and marriages) , laws (the Anteater's, regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals) , Anteater's laws (|a!kunta's version) , Anteater's laws (regarding the habits, diet and marriage of animals)
Story Pages
138-150
