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Story: |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen
Title
|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen
Collection
Summary
/kú–te–!gaúä, who could enter fire unharmed, enables the Mantis to do the same. The ingratitude of the latter to his instructor again brings him into trouble; and his newly acquired power deserts him. (L VIII.-11. 7015-7031, 12. 7032-7064). |ku-te !gaua goes through fire and draws out cats, 'such cat's as had no equal in beauty' and then skins them. |kaggen (the Mantis) sings like |ku-te !gaua and also gets skins, but he refuses to share them with |ku-te !gaua. |ku-te !gaua angrily says that |kaggen and the skins will burn in the fire, which happens.
Comments
1) p.7014v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his mother (≠xabbi-an) who he thinks got it from her mother and father (≠kammi and Tsatsi), 2) pp.7032 opp-7032v: see Words and sentences: various expressions for being angry, 3) p.7033v: see Words and sentences: regarding the expressions |guobba ||a, and !kwiten ||a (as applied to the flight of bees), 4) pp.7033v-7034v: see The Mantis - giver of names to places, 5) pp.7039v-7040v: see How various mice make their nests, 6) p.7058v: when the adventure took place in relation to the story of the Mantis and Koro-tuiten (alluded to in one of the Ichneumon's speeches), 7) This story is found in Book VIII-11 and VIII-12
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
29 May – June 1878
Categories
Keywords
|kaggen (the Mantis) , |kaggen (and |ku-te-!gaua) , |kaggen (wants cats' skins) , |kaggen (and strangers) , |kaggen (is foolish) , |kaggen (and water) , |kaggen (the punishment of) , |kaggen (his things or Hartebeest's children) , |kaggen (picks fights) , |kaggen (the names of his relations) , |kaggen (his actions) , |kaggen (is burnt in the fire) , |ku-te-!gaua (punishes |kaggen) , |ku-te-!gaua (must be given a cat) , |ku-te-!gaua (makes fires burn) , |ku-te-!gaua (becomes angry) , |ku-te-!gaua (his dress) , |ku-te-!gaua (his song to the fire) , |ku-te-!gaua (enters the fire) , |ku-te-!gaua (and the cats) , |ku-te-!gaua (and |kaggen) , |ku-te-!gaua (wears cat-skin) , |ku-te-!gaua (speaks to the fire) , |ku-te-!gaua (makes fires at cats' lairs) , |ku-te-!gaua (his fires do not burn him) , wind (west) , wind (a cat-skin is like) , wind (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , cats (|ku-te-!gaua makes fires at their lair) , cats (are beautiful) , cats (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen sing for) , cats (their skin is worn by |ku-te-!gaua) , cats (and |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , cats (their skin is like the west wind) , cats (|ku-te !gaua enters fire and draws them out) , cats (their lairs or holes) , fire (is made cool) , fire (protection from) , fire (|ku-te-!gaua's song to) , fire (|ku-te !gaua enters, and draws out cats) , fire (and |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , fire (|kaggen and his cat–skins burn in) , fire (at the cats' lair) , song (|ku-te-!gaua's to the fire and the cats) , song (for drawing out cats) , song (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , dress (cat–skin is worn by |ku-te-!gaua) , dress (|kaggen wants cat–skin) , dress (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , things (|kaggen's Hartebeest's children) , things (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , Hartebeest's children (|kaggen's things) , Hartebeest's children (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , skins (cat–skins are like the west wind) , skins (|kaggen's cat–skins burn in fire) , skins (cat–skin is worn by |ku-te-!gaua) , skins (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , fights (|kaggen picks with others) , fights (between |ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , share (|kaggen does not) , share (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen) , names (of kaggen's friends and relations) , names (|ku-te-!gaua and |kaggen)
Story Pages
7015-7031, 7032-7064
