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Story: The story of Tssi-!kuara |hin (the Lioness and her adopted daughter)
Title
The story of Tssi-!kuara |hin (the Lioness and her adopted daughter)
Collection
Summary
The Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi–!kuára–Ihin. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.-25. 8084-8169, 8171 and 8172, 25. 8173-8176). The Lioness (in the times of the Early Race) decides to keep a baby girl that she finds and names it Biting-Torn-Away (or Tssi-!kuarra |hin), and she grows up. The Lioness tricks a child into sending her brother to her at night, but his grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau, are also there (they are people and also trees). The Lioness tries to find a way of catching the young man on his own, but Biting-Torn-Away protects him and warns him how to behave around her mother. Whenever the Lioness tells a lie when she is near the fire, !kwa-!kau and !kwa-!kwa crackle from within it, causing her to move away. The Lioness kills a gemsbok and Biting-Torn-Away and the young man go to help her. The Lioness places some of the meat into a thong that she twists around her body, and asks Biting-Torn-Away to help lift her up. While Biting-Torn-Away lifts her mother's arms, the husband stabs her exposed flesh with his knife. The young man returns to his own mother's house, bringing Biting-Torn-Away with him.
Comments
1) This story was taken in January 1879 but translated in March and April 1897, 2) p.8084opp: |han≠kass'o heard this from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi) when a child, and also from his mother when older, 3) pp.8169v & 8170: see Words and sentences: names of colours (this page interrupts the story), 4) p.8075v: (22 January 1879) what the |xam call the eclipse of the sun, 6) This story is found in Books VIII-24 and VIII-25
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
9 January 1879 (started, and finished on or about the 19 January)
Categories
Keywords
Lioness (and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away) , Lioness (the place where she vanishes) , Lioness (her head vanishes) , Lioness (the place where her 'head's little piece shall become black') , Lioness (wound up in thong) , Lioness (is not eaten because she is a person) , Lioness (Biting-Torn-Away advises her husband on her doings) , Lioness (people do not see her come) , Lioness (her actions) , Lioness (and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau) , Lioness (and the timid child) , Lioness (sings to the children at the water) , Lioness (bites open a woman and takes her baby) , Lioness (is killed by Biting-Torn-Away and her husband) , Lioness (hunts the gemsbok) , Lioness (raises Biting-Torn-Away as her own) , Lioness (is a person of the Early Race) , Lioness (her efforts to steal up on her adopted daughter's husband) , Early Race (or the First Bushmen) , Early Race (and the grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau) , Early Race (!kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau are trees and people) , Early Race (and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away) , young man (and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away) , young man (Biting-Torn-Away advises him on the doings of the Lioness) , young man (must not sleep) , young man (must understand the Lioness properly) , young man (stabs and kills the Lioness) , young man (and his grandmothers, !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau) , young man (is Biting-Torn-Away's husband) , young man (is well educated) , young man (rescues Biting-Torn-Away) , Biting-Torn-Away (or Tssi-!kuara |hin, her story) , Biting-Torn-Away (and her husband, the young man) , Biting-Torn-Away (is the Lioness's adopted daughter) , Biting-Torn-Away (her grandmothers are !kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau) , Biting-Torn-Away (was raised and nourished by the Lioness) , Biting-Torn-Away (the Lioness killed her mother) , Biting-Torn-Away (is clever) , Biting-Torn-Away (became a grown-up girl) , Biting-Torn-Away (protects her husband from the Lioness) , Biting-Torn-Away (advises her husband on the doings of the Lioness) , Biting-Torn-Away (helps kill her adopted mother, the Lioness) , trees (!kwa-!kwa and !kwa-kau are also people) , trees (and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away) , gemsbok (hunted by the Lioness) , gemsbok (killed by the adopted daughter's husband) , gemsbok (its meat is placed in the thong that trapped the Lioness) , gemsbok (and the Lioness and her adopted daughter, Tssi-!kuara |hin or Biting-Torn-Away) , names (of the adopted daughter of the Lioness) , names (of the Lioness grandmothers, the trees)
Story Pages
8084-8172, 8173-8176
