Title

The Hyena's revenge

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

The Lion, the Jackal, the Chersina angulata, and the Hyena. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.-25. 8232-8251). The Lion and the Jackal throw mud at each other and as a result the Lion sits blinded at the water. The |go |go'ken (Chersina angulata, or angulate tortoise) wipes his eyes clean and the Lion eats her, putting her head into his bag. |go |go'ken's husband, the Hyena, offers the Lion some soup and puts the pot over the Lion's head and kills him.

Comments

1) p.8231v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) pp.8234v-8235v: see An ostrich eggshell, if left open, will attract snakes, 3) p.8235v: what the people call a lion and its movements, 4) p.8236v: the name of a woman; what is said when the white hair of the springbok is 'up'; on 'dipping up' water when it has rained, 5) p.8241v & 8242v: sorrow and grief (what the |xam and white men say); the drinking of soup, 6) p.8247v: brave men and cowards, 7) p.8250v: a man Tsatsi (|han≠kass'o's maternal grandfather) told |han≠kass'o about, 8) This story is found in Book VIII-25

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

8 February 1879 (started)

Categories

History (Early Race)

Keywords

teasing person (and the Hyena's revenge) , teasing person (what |xam call) , teasing person (the Jackal is) , Jackal (sings and throws mud quickly) , Jackal (is a teasing person) , Jackal (his mud fight with the Lion) , Jackal (is a person of the Early Race) , Jackal (and the Hyena's revenge) , Hyena (kills the Lion using a cooking pot) , Hyena (grieves and cries) , Hyena (his revenge) , Hyena (the Lion kills his wife Auru, the |go |go'ken or Tortoise) , Hyena (is a person of the Early Race) , Hyena (tricks the Lion) , Lion (the Hyena puts his body in a tree) , Lion (his 'eyes burning burst', killing him) , Lion (is tricked by the Hyena) , Lion (his mud fight with the Jackal) , Lion (is blinded by mud) , Lion (sings and throws mud slowly) , Lion (is a person of the Early Race) , Lion (and the Hyena's revenge) , Lion (kills the Hyena's wife Auru, the |go |go'ken or Tortoise) , Lion (puts the |go |go'ken's head in his bag) , Lion (his head is burnt in the cooking pot) , Lion (is killed by the Hyena) , revenge (the Hyena's) , Tortoise (the |go |go'ken or Chersina angulata, or angulate tortoise) , Tortoise (the Lion kills and eats her) , Tortoise (is the Hyena's wife) , Tortoise (her name is Auru) , Tortoise (her head is placed in the Lion's bag: 'like darkness, at the mouth of the bag') , Tortoise (is a person of the Early Race) , grief (|xam terms for) , grief (the |xam say 'in sorrow') , grief (what white men call) , grief (felt by the Hyena) , grief (and the Hyena's revenge) , darkness (what |xam say about) , darkness ('is not a little black') , darkness (the |go |go'ken or Tortoise's head in the bag which resembles) , darkness (and the Hyena's revenge) , pot (the cooking pot put by Hyena on the Lion's head) , pot (and the Hyena's revenge) , pot (and the death of the Lion) , pot (and the drinking of soup) , soup (methods of drinking) , soup (and the use of a cooking pot) , soup (and the Hyena's revenge) , Early Race (or the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the Lion, the Jackal, the Tortoise and the Hyena are people of) , Early Race (and the Hyena's revenge) , name (of the Tortoise, the Hyena's wife) , name (and the Hyena's revenge) , name (the |go |go'ken or Chersina angulata, or angulate tortoise)

Story Pages

8232-8251

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