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Story: The Day's Heart star
Title
The Day's Heart star
Collection
Summary
The Day's Heart star buries his child alive and goes away. Other creatures come by including the child's mother. The father gives the daughter directions in a speech in which he tells her her name and the doings of various animals and stars, such as ||ko hai. He also tells her about the behaviour of people and what they must do in their daily lives with food and so on, and about the heavens and their creation. The Stars are divided into night stars and dawn stars ... The 'Dawn’s Heart' (the star Jupiter) has a daughter, who is identified with some neighbouring star preceding Jupiter (at the time when we asked, it was Regulus or Alpha Leonis). Her name is the 'Dawn’s–Heart–child', and her relation to her father is somewhat mysterious. Besides a short statement of the nature of the Dawn’s-Heart, and of his child (L II.-2. 292 and 293), we have two long pieces. The first of these begins with a short narrative of only eleven columns, and then gives a very long discourse from the Dawn’s–Heart to his daughter, which treats not only of their own history and that of the lynx–mother, but also of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, and of the habits of different animals.
Comments
1) The Day's Heart star is also known as the Dawn's-Heart star (in Specimens of Bushman Folklore), 2) p.1444v: a note on the kaross, which has arms with which to fasten it in front, 3) pp.1439v-1440v and p.1445v: see Jewellery and ornaments worn by women, 4) p.1502v: the term 'great' means that the Day's Heart star is grown-up, 5) p.1505v: the place where day breaks, 6) p.1523v: the people cut the game into flaps of flesh, 7) p.1524v: the flesh is beaten and softened after it has dried in the sun, 8) p.1527v: ||kabbo says that wet flesh and dry rice are mixed by pounding them together; people thirst after eating dry rice, 9) p.1528v: houses are made of trees and bushes, 10) p.1529v: Brinkkop, 11) p.1530v: the screen of bushes in which men lie and wait for ostriches and other animals, 12) p.1542v: Kleine Har River, 13) p.1547v: the Groote Hart River and Groote Doorn Boom as well as the names of things in the story, 14) See also More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter and The story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara or !ko'-g !nuin-tara and the Day's Heart star and Day's Heart and The Day-Heart star child, 15) This story is found in Books II-15 and II-16
Contributors
Date
3 – 24 June 1872
Categories
Celestial bodies and aeroscopy, History (Early Race)
Keywords
Day's Heart (star) , Day's Heart (Dawn's-Heart) , Day's Heart (Jupiter) , Day's Heart (speech to his daughter) , Day's Heart (the people's names for) , Day's Heart (discourses) , Day's Heart (Dawn's-Heart) , Day's Heart (Jupiter) , Day's Heart (is a star) , Day's Heart (heart is a child) , Day's Heart (spits out his child) , Day's Heart (flesh is red) , Day's Heart (names his child) , Day's Heart (heaven's thing) , Day's Heart (and nature and habits of animals) , Day's Heart (and doings of |xam) , Day's Heart (and his daughter) , Day's Heart (and Lynx) , Day's Heart (buries his child) , Day's Heart (swallows his child) , Day's Heart (and Sun) , Day's Heart (movements of) , Day's Heart (wife, nuin ttarra) , Day's Heart (nature of) , stars (Jupiter) , stars (the people's names for different) , stars (the Day's Heart star and his child) , stars (||ko hai) , stars (heaven's things) , stars (colours of) , stars (movements of) , stars (night's stars and dawn's stars) , stars (people's names for) , stars (called ||ko hai) , stars (Day's Heart) , stars (Day's Heart's speech to his daughter) , stars (Day's Heart's discourses) , stars (Dawn's-Heart) , stars (a description of Day's Heart's doings) , stars (Day's Heart's heart is a child) , stars (Day's Heart spits out his child) , stars (Day's Heart's flesh is red) , stars (Day's Heart names his child) , stars (Day's Heart and heaven's things) , stars (Day's Heart and nature and habits of animals) , stars (Day's Heart and doings of |xam) , stars (Day's Heart and his daughter) , stars (Day's Heart and Lynx) , stars (Day's Heart buries his child) , stars (Day's Heart swallows his child) , stars (Day's Heart and Sun) , stars (Day's Heart's movements) , stars (Day's Heart's wife, nuin ttarra) , animals (and Day's Heart star's discourses) , animals (accounting for nature, habits and appearance of) , animals (must marry their own kind) , Lynx (and Day's Heart star) , Lynx (is Day's Heart star's child's mother) , Lynx (Lynx-mother) , Lynx (is Day's Heart's wife, nuin ttarra) , people (Flat Bushmen) , people (and Day's Heart star's discourses) , people (accounting for the doings of) , Day's Heart child (Dawn’s–Heart) , Day's Heart child (her doings) , Day's Heart child (resembles her father) , Day's Heart child (her name is heart) , Day's Heart child (her father swallows her) , Day's Heart child (her father buries her) , Day's Heart child (her father spits her out) , Day's Heart child (her mother) , Day's Heart child (and her father's speech or discourses) , Day's Heart child (is a star) , Day's Heart child (her father is Day's Heart Star) , Day's Heart child's mother (is a Lynx) , Day's Heart child's mother (Lynx-mother) , Day's Heart child's mother (married Day's Heart star) , Day's Heart child's mother (must marry her own kind) , Day's Heart child's mother (eats flesh, eats raw) , Day's Heart child's mother (is poisoned, bewitched by Jackal and Hyena) , Day's Heart child's mother (and Jackal and Hyena's revenge) , Day's Heart child's mother (is a beast of prey) , Day's Heart child's mother (must not dig for 'Bushman rice') , Day's Heart child's mother (her ornaments or jewellery) , Day's Heart child's mother (her odour) , Day's Heart child's mother (is different) , Day's Heart child's mother (her face is white) , Day's Heart child's mother (her kaross) , Day's Heart child's mother (must hunt or running' catch things) , Day's Heart child's mother (her name is nuin ttarra) , Day's Heart child's mother (becomes an animal) , Day's Heart child's mother (becomes a Lynx) , Day's Heart child's mother (her name is Lynx) , Day's Heart child's mother (is handsome) , Day's Heart child's mother (her younger sister) , heaven's things (and Day's Heart star) , heaven's things (and Sun, Moon and stars) , heaven's things (their creation) , Moon (and Day's Heart star's discourses) , Moon (creation of) , kaross (the Day's Heart star's child's mother's) , Sun (and Day's Heart stars) , Sun (makes Day's Heart's path) , Sun (the name of) , Sun (is thrown up by children) , Sun (and Flat Bushmen) , Sun (creation of) , creation (of Sun, Moon and stars) , creation (and the Day's Heart star) , Flat Bushmen (their doings according to discourses of Day's Heart star) , ornaments (or jewellery worn by Day's Heart star's wife) , Hyena (its revenge on Day's Heart child's mother) , Hyena (poisons Day's Heart child's mother) , Jackal (its revenge on Day's Heart child's mother) , Jackal (poisons Day's Heart child's mother) , hunting (and Day's Heart star's discourses) , hunting (and Day's Heart star's mother) , hunting (and animals who must 'running catch things') , jewellery (worn by Day's Heart star's wife) , child (Day's Heart star child) , revenge (the Jackal's and the Hyena's on the Day's Heart child's mother, the Lynx) , names (of the Day's Heart stars and the Day's Heart child's mother) , names (name of the Sun) , names (of stars) , names (given to the Day's Heart star) , discourse (of the Day's Heart star to his daughter) , marriage (of Lynx and Day's Heart star) , marriage (of animals) , marriage (and the discourses of the Day's Heart star)
Story Pages
1432-1499, 1500-1548
