Title

The two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebuck, and the Black Crow

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

The Two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebok and the Crow. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.-32. 8859-8878, 8848-8852, 19. 7643-7656). Two Lions (!gu and his companion, !haue ta ≠hou) kill the lizards !khau and |gi. They carry their flesh to the home of the Blue Crane and her companion, the Rhebok |ke-dde (the wives of the dead lizards), pretending to be the dead husbands. |ke-dde and the Blue Crane escape, but the Blue Crane returns home to fetch her child and is killed. The Lions find the others (|ke-dde, ||horu and |ke-dde's child), who wait for the Lions on top of a bare rock and are protected by the stones. The Black Crow draws |ke-dde up with a thong and heats stones on the ground below her house. The Black Crow throws the thong down for the Lion, and the Lion falls down onto the hot stones and dies.

Comments

1) Date on p.8864: 9 December; p.7643: 11 December 1879, 2) See also Note on the two Lions, 3) |han≠kass'o heard this from his mother (|xabbi-an) and his maternal grandmother (≠kammi); the |gi (lizard) is 'beautiful', 4) p.8867v: what the people say when they are thirsty, 5) p.8875v: the people's name for a python, 6) p.8877v: what people say to a companion or 'mate', 7) p.8848v: ||horu and the kochelman, 8) p.8850v: despite being people and possessing arrows, the Lions bite things rather than shoot them, 9) p.7645v: the Rhebok's name was |ke-dde when she was a person, 10) This story is found in Books VIII-19 and VIII-32

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

9 December 1879 (started on or about)

Categories

History (Early Race)

Keywords

Early Race (the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebok and the Black Crow) , Early Race (the names of animals when they were people) , Lions (the two) , Lions (are hurt by stones) , Lions (kill |gi and !khau) , Lions (scratch for the lizards) , Lions (and the Rhebok's moving stones) , Lions (one attempts to ascend a thong) , Lions (one falls on the Black Crow's heated stones) , Lions (one attempts to catch the Rhebok |ke-dde) , Lions (and the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebok and the Black Crow) , Lions (called !gu and !haue ta ≠hou) , Lions (pretend to be husbands) , Lions (one is killed in the Black Crow's fire) , Lions (they want the Rhebok and the Blue Crane as wives) , Lions (are people of the Early Race) , Lizard (called ||horu) , Lizard (and the two Lions, the Blue Crane, the Rhebok and the Black Crow) , Lizard (of the Early Race) , Lizard (the wife of) , Lizard (called !khau) , Lizard (called |gi) , Lizard (lizards are husbands of the Blue Crane and the Rhebok) , Lizard (are killed by the two Lions) , Rhebok (and ||horu) , Rhebok (and the Black Crow) , Rhebok (escapes from Lions) , Rhebok (deceives the Lion) , Rhebok (stones move and cover) , Rhebok (or 'Rhebuck') , Rhebok (called |ke-dde) , Rhebok (of the Early Race) , Rhebok (her name when a person) , Rhebok (is the wife of the |gi) , Rhebok (and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane and the Black Crow) , Blue Crane (and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Rhebok and the Black Crow) , Blue Crane (is the wife of the !khau lizard) , Blue Crane (is a person of the Early Race) , Black Crow (her house of sticks) , Black Crow (and the thong that breaks) , Black Crow (she saves the Rhebok |ke-dde) , Black Crow (she heats stones) , Black Crow (and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane and the Rhebok) , Black Crow (is a person of the Early Race) , names (the two Lions are called !gu and !haue ta ≠hou) , names (the Rhebok is called |ke-dde) , names (a lizard called !khau) , names (a lizard called ||horu) , names (a lizard called |gi) , names (name of the Rhebok when a person) , names (and the two Lions, the Lizards, the Blue Crane, the Rhebuck, and the Black Crow)

Story Pages

8848-8852, 8859-8878, 7643-7656

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