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Story: The Mantis and ||khwai-hemm
Title
The Mantis and ||khwai-hemm
Collection
Summary
...the visit of //khwái–hemm (the All–devourer) to the Mantis. The latter, by means of the Porcupine, invites //khwái–hemm to visit him. He comes, and presently swallows /kwámmana and the Mantis. They are rescued by young /kwámmana and another child, who cut the monster open (L VIII.-20. 7812-7816, 22. 7906-7956). //khwái–hemm is stated, by /han≠kass’o (on the information of his mother /kábbi–an), to be the father of the Porcupine (L VIII.-10. 6934 rev., note). |kaggen (the Mantis) tells the Porcupine (his son's wife) to go to her father (||khwai-hemm), but she is afraid because there is not enough to feed him. ||khwai-hemm says that he will visit |kaggen, because he must have enough food to offer if he has invited ||khwai-hemm. ||khwai-hemm comes and |kaggen tells him to stop eating things, as there is nothing else to eat. ||khwai-hemm becomes angry and swallows |kwammana and then |kaggen. The children then each cut open a different side of ||khwai-hemm's body, and |kwammana and |kaggen fall out.|kaggen (the Mantis) tells the Porcupine (his son's wife) to go to her father (||khwai-hemm), but she is afraid because there is not enough to feed him. ||khwai-hemm says that he will visit |kaggen, because he must have enough food to offer if he has invited ||khwai-hemm. ||khwai-hemm comes and |kaggen tells him to stop eating things, as there is nothing else to eat. ||khwai-hemm becomes angry and swallows |kwammana and then |kaggen. The children then each cut open a different side of ||khwai-hemm's body, and |kwammana and |kaggen fall out.
Comments
1) This story was told to |han≠kass'o by his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) p.7946v: the name of a snake, 3) See also The Mantis takes away the Tick's sheep (including Porcupine's speech concerning the coming of ||khwai-hemm) and The Mantis and the Ticks and Mantis and ||khwai-hemm and The monster ||khwái-hemm’s speech to the Mantis and the Mantis's reply, 4) This story is found in Books VIII-20 and VIII-22
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
31 October (started on or about) – November 1878
Categories
Keywords
|kaggen (the Mantis) , |kaggen (and ||khwai-hemm) , |kaggen (the rescue of) , |kaggen (young-) , |kaggen (invites ||khwai-hemm to his house) , |kaggen (his relations) , |kaggen (his wife, |huntu or !kauruwo) , |kaggen (curses) , |kaggen (tells his wife to hide food from ||khwai-hemm) , |kaggen (his doings) , |kaggen (|kwammana blames him) , |kaggen (his actions) , |kaggen (gets swallowed by ||khwai-hemm) , |kaggen (and |kwammana are rescued by their children) , |kaggen (and his son-in-law, |kwammana) , |kaggen (his son) , |kaggen (his child resembles him) , |kaggen (and the Porcupine- his daughter-in-law) , Porcupine (and |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , Porcupine (||khwai-hemm is her father) , Porcupine (prepares the children to rescue their fathers from ||khwai-hemm) , Porcupine (teaches the children to sit still like stones) , Porcupine (puts a heated spear in the children's ears) , Porcupine (and the rescue of |kaggen and |kwammana) , ||khwai-hemm (|kaggen and) , ||khwai-hemm (the All–devourer) , ||khwai-hemm (the blackness and darkness inside him) , ||khwai-hemm (lays his tongue on the children to test if they are stones) , ||khwai-hemm (his house) , ||khwai-hemm (is not a person) , ||khwai-hemm (is the Porcupine's father) , ||khwai-hemm (his tongue is like a heated spear) , ||khwai-hemm (and the rescue of |kaggen and |kwammana from his insides) , ||khwai-hemm (eats everything) , ||khwai-hemm (swallows |kaggen and |kwammana) , ||khwai-hemm (spits out empty pots) , ||khwai-hemm (lays his tongue on things) , ||khwai-hemm (asks for food) , ||khwai-hemm (his shadow which resembles a cloud) , children (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , children (young |kaggen and young |kwammana) , children (burnt by ||khwai-hemm's tongue) , children (sit like stones) , children (the Porcupine's preparation of) , children (|kaggen and |kwammana are rescued from ||khwai-hemm by their) , Ichneumon (advises) , Ichneumon (scolds) , Ichneumon (tells |kaggen to be silent) , Ichneumon (and |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , |kwammana (is swallowed by ||khwai-hemm) , |kwammana (and |kaggen are rescued by their children) , |kwammana (young-) , |kwammana (blames |kaggen and his doings) , |kwammana (his child) , |kwammana (his wife, the Porcupine) , |kwammana (and |kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , spear (the Porcupine heats one and puts it in the ears of |kaggen and |kwammana's children) , spear (||khwai-hemm's tongue resembles) , spear (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , names (of |kaggen's friends and relations) , names (|kaggen's wife is |huntu or !kauruwo) , names (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , wife (|kaggen's is |huntu or !kauruwo) , wife (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , tongue (of ||khwai-hemm, the All–devourer) , tongue (like a heated spear) , tongue (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , food (||khwai-hemm asks for and devours everything) , food (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , shadow (cast by ||khwai-hemm resembles a cloud) , shadow (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm) , cloud (shadow cast by ||khwai-hemm resembles) , cloud (|kaggen and ||khwai-hemm)
Story Pages
7812-7816, 7906-7956
