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Story: The !kau who brought home his own flesh as food
Title
The !kau who brought home his own flesh as food
Collection
Summary
A tale of the Early Race about the !khau lizard, who brings home his own flesh as food so that his wife will think he has brought home a Quagga. Eventually the wife tells their child to go out with his father and see what flesh he is bringing and the child sees his father go into a whirlwind and come out rolling his flesh in a net. The woman throws away the husband's flesh and leaves him for her father's people.
Comments
1) See also Song of the !kau's child, 2) p.7113v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an), 3) p.7119opp: about an insect, 4) p.7119v: see Aquilae's water, 5) p.7139v: how people swallow raw liver, 6) See also The death of the !kau (a lizard of the genus Agama) and Song of the !kau's child, and Remarks by |han≠kass'o on the preceding story (The death of the !kau), 7) This story is found in Books VIII-12 and Book VIII-13
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
29 June 1878 (started)
Categories
Keywords
Early Race (food eaten by) , Early Race (the First People, or Bushmen, or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui) , Early Race (and the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , Early Race (when animals were people) , Early Race (when people were foolish) , lizard (of the genus Agama) , lizard (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , !khau (!kau) , !khau (Agama lizard) , !khau (his wife) , !khau (his child) , !khau (his child's song) , !khau (his flesh resembles the Quagga's) , !khau (who resembles the Quagga) , !khau (brings home his own flesh as food) , !khau (was a person) , !khau (and the whirlwind) , whirlwind (its dust) , whirlwind (the !khau goes into) , whirlwind (and the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , food (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as) , Quagga (the !khau's flesh resembles) , Quagga (the !khau's wife's people hunt real) , Quagga (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , song (of the !khau's child to the scrap of 'liver') , song (to the 'lizard-scrap') , song (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , foolish (when people were) , foolish (the First Bushmen were) , foolish (the !khau was) , foolish (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , Agama lizard (!kau) , Agama lizard (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , Agama lizard (|xam names of) , names (|xam, of the Agama lizard) , names (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , dust (from the whirlwind the !khau goes into) , dust (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , flesh (the !khau who brought home his own as food)
Story Pages
7114-7118, 7119-7156
