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Story: More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter
Title
More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter
Collection
Summary
The Day's Heart star continues his discourse to his daughter, the Day's Heart child. He tells her about her mother (who resembles a Cat) and the doings, hunting and appearance of other animals. Also about the things of the sky, times of the day, the Sun and Moon, the stars and the people; what the 'Flat Bushmen' eat and all their doings such as hunting and making weapons and talking and making fire, as well as the doings of various animals such as who kills and eats what and who talks and does not: the doings of things. The Stars are divided into night stars and dawn stars. The latter are the subjects of some very fine and complicated mythological conceptions, of which we evidently possess, as yet, only fragments. 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)...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. More than one hundred columns (1548-1652) of his discourse treat only of lions and Bushmen, and it runs at last into a description of the doings of the jackals, which, however, has been brought under a separate heading (L II.-15. 1432-1499, 16. 1500-1553, 17. 1554-1622, 18. 1623-1691, 19. 1692-1710).
Comments
1) Date on p.1655: 19 July; p.1708: 26 July, 2) p.1702v: the making of arrow-heads, 3) p.1704v: 'Flat Bushmen' are 'real' Bushmen because they talk, 4) p.1707v: a crow with a white neck and breast and a black back (!ka ka-ken) and another bird who takes a piece of the springbok's stomach fat, hangs it around its neck and flies away (see also The Crow's story), 5) p.1708v: |xam names for other crow-like birds and comments as to their appearance, 6) The Day's Heart star is also known as the Dawn's-Heart star (in Specimens of Bushman Folklore), 7) See also The Day's Heart star 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's Heart star child, 8) This story is found in Books II-18 and II-19
Contributors
Date
18 (started on or about) – 26 July 1872
Categories
Custom and daily life, Celestial bodies and aeroscopy, Plants and animals
Keywords
Day's Heart (star) , Day's Heart (!gau e |i) , Day's Heart (!kaun !khe) , Day's Heart (Jupiter) , Day's Heart (is a star) , Day's Heart (his name) , Day's Heart (what he says to his daughter) , Day's Heart (and Sun) , Day's Heart (resembles fire) , Day's Heart (the appearance of) , Day's Heart (his heart) , Day's Heart (is cold) , Day's Heart (is darkness's thing) , Day's Heart (and Moon) , Day's Heart (his daughter) , Day's Heart (his child) , Day's Heart (his wife) , Day's Heart (his doings) , Day's Heart (his discourse) , Day's Heart child (grows) , Day's Heart child (is cold) , Day's Heart child (is darkness's thing) , Day's Heart child (is a star) , Day's Heart child (and Moon) , Day's Heart child (the appearance of) , Day's Heart child (the doings of) , Day's Heart child (her father is Day's Heart star) , Day's Heart child (her father's discourse or speech) , Day's Heart child (her mother) , Day's Heart child's mother (resembles a Cat) , Day's Heart child's mother (her daughter is Day's Heart child) , Day's Heart child's mother (is different) , Day's Heart child's mother (is an animal) , Day's Heart child's mother (is a Lynx) , Day's Heart child's mother (is a beast of prey) , Day's Heart child's mother (grew lion hair) , Day's Heart child's mother (is a person) , stars (Day's Hearts) , stars (names of) , stars (discourse of Day's Heart star) , stars (what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter) , discourse (what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter) , Cat (Day's Heart child's mother resembles) , Cat (Lynx-mother is) , Cat (what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter) , speech (what the Day's Heart star says to his daughter) , Flat Bushmen (their doings according to discourse of Day's Heart star) , Flat Bushmen ('Flat's folk') , animals (that are handsome) , animals (the appearance of) , animals ('angry folk') , animals (beasts of prey) , animals (and 'great hole's' things) , animals (the nature and habits of) , animals (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , weapons (the making of) , weapons (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , river (Little Har) , river (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , hunting (and making of weapons) , hunting (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , hunting (by 'Flat Bushmen') , hunting (of and by animals) , Moon (is 'darkness's veldschoen') , Moon (the doings of) , Moon (old father) , Moon (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , Day's Hearts (stars) , Day's Hearts (the doings of) , Day's Hearts (live in heaven) , Day's Hearts (are sky's things) , Day's Hearts (Day's Heart star's discourse) , Sun (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , Sun (old father) , Sun (the doings of) , names (of Day's Heart stars) , names (of stars) , names (of groups of |xam) , names (of a river, Little Har) , names (of foods eaten by |xam) , veldskoen ('darkness's veldschoen') , veldskoen (Moon is) , veldskoen (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , beast of prey ('angry folk') , beast of prey ('great hole's' things) , beast of prey (and Day's Heart star's discourses) , beast of prey (doings of) , beast of prey (Lynx-mother is) , Lynx (-mother) , Lynx (wife of the Day's Heart star) , Lynx (mother of the Day's Heart star child) , Lynx (her name) , Lynx (and Day's Heart star's discourse) , food (what the |xam eat and the discourses of the Day's Heart star)
Story Pages
1652-1691, 1692-1710
