Notebooks
Story: A note on the First Bushmen
Title
A note on the First Bushmen
Collection
Summary
A series of three notes about the first people (the First Bushmen). In the first their children worked to raise the Sun; in the second they teach their children the histories of the first people; the third tells of the time before the Sun was thrown into the sky and his light shone only around his house.
Comments
1) An explanatory note on the contents page of this book reads: 'He (the sun) (J.T tells me) was a man, who only gave forth brightness for a space around his own house. His shining did not reach other places. He, before this action of the children's, had not been in the sky, but had lived at his own house, on earth. He was not a !khwe |na ssho !kui.', 2) See also The children of the First Bushmen (who preceded the Flat Bushmen in their country) throw up the sleeping Sun into the sky, 3) This story is found in Book II-35
Contributors
Date
September 1873
Categories
History (Early Race), Celestial bodies and aeroscopy
Keywords
Early Race (a note on the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the first people) , Early Race ('Flat Bushmen' teach history of First Bushmen) , Early Race (and creation of the Sun) , Early Race (the children of) , Early Race (the history of) , Sun (creation of and a note on the First Bushmen) , Sun ('was a man...He was not a !khwe |na ssho !kui') , Sun (its armpit or armhole) , Sun (its house) , Sun (is thrown into sky) , Flat Bushmen (teach history of First Bushmen) , Flat Bushmen (inhabit First Bushmen's ground) , Flat Bushmen (a note on the First Bushmen) , creation (of the Sun) , creation (and a note on the First Bushmen) , education ('Flat Bushmen' teach history of First Bushmen) , education (a note on the First Bushmen) , history ('Flat Bushmen' teach that of the First Bushmen) , history (a note on the First Bushmen) , |xam (and the 'first people') , |xam (their history) , |xam (the 'Flat Bushmen' teach the history of the First Bushmen) , |xam (and a note on the First Bushmen) , children (of the First Bushmen threw the Sun into the sky) , children (and a note on the First Bushmen) , armpit (of the Sun) , armpit (and the creation of the Sun) , armpit (and a note on the First Bushmen) , name (of the First Bushmen: the !khwe |na ssho !kui')
Story Pages
3150opp, 3150v
