Notebooks
Story: The Moon
Title
The Moon
Collection
Summary
About the Moon and death; good and bad moons; the stars also know things the people do not understand and the Moon sees things that will come to pass; if it is looked at, the Moon can allow game to live, even if the game has been poisoned or shot.
Comments
1) pp.5173-5260 were translated in April 1912; except for pp.5206-5209, 2) See also A small insect called !ka !karro, said to resemble the Moon, used by Bushmen women to ascertain if the men will bring food home and Moths coming to the fire of Bushmen by night foretell the killing of certain kinds of game and The coming of the Mantis to sit upon the quiver of the Bushman father at home foretells the shooting of a hartebeest, 3) This story is found in Book V-16
Contributors
Date
12 – 13 August 1875
Categories
Celestial bodies and aeroscopy, Custom and daily life, Portention
Keywords
Moon ('possesses' game) , Moon (its actions with the wounded game) , Moon (how it heals the game's wounds) , Moon (wants the game to live) , Moon (makes the game lean) , Moon (makes the game live again) , Moon (brings the game to life) , Moon (won't allow the game to die) , Moon (and the Hare) , Moon (its doings) , Moon (is a 'great thing') , Moon (sees things that will come to pass) , Moon (its instructions to the people) , Moon (about) , Moon (and the origin of death) , Moon (carries dead people) , Moon (and collecting food) , Moon (and shooting game) , Moon (and hunting) , Moon (and fortunes finding food) , Moon (and food) , Moon (and game) , Moon (foretells) , Moon (predicts) , Moon ('knows' things) , Moon (teaching about) , Moon (prohibitions regarding) , Moon (avoidance behaviour relating to) , Moon (must not be looked at) , Moon (is bloody or red with the game's blood) , Moon (its colour) , Moon (when full) , Moon (and what the mothers say) , stars ('know things') , stars (and the Moon) , Hare (and the Moon) , Hare (and the origin of death) , hunting (when the Moon allows the game to live) , hunting (and the doings and appearance of the Moon) , hunting (successful and unsuccessful) , hunting (and fortunes with finding food) , hunting (and looking at the Moon) , hunting (and shooting and poisoning game) , game (their wounds are cooled by the Moon) , game (the Moon allows them to live) , game (and what happens if the Moon is looked at) , game (the Moon makes them lean) , game (shooting of and the Moon) , game (successful hunting of) , presentiments (the Moon and finding food) , food (the Moon and success finding) , death (and the Moon) , death (the Moon and the Hare and the origin of) , death (dead carried in the Moon) , teaching (about the Moon, its doings and finding food) , teaching (avoiding looking at the Moon) , education (about the Moon, its doings and finding food) , education (avoiding looking at the Moon) , prohibitions (relating to the Moon) , prohibitions (avoiding looking at the Moon) , prohibitions (looking at the Moon and finding food) , wounds (of the game cooled by the Moon) , wounds (and successful hunting) , blood (the Moon is red with that of the game) , blood (and the Moon) , poisoning (and shooting of game) , poisoning (poisoned wounds cooled by the Moon) , poisoning (and avoiding looking at the Moon)
Story Pages
5206-5232
