Title

The story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara, or, !ko'-g !nuin-tara and the Day's Heart star

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

The Story of !kó–g!nuin–tára, wife of the 'Dawn’s–Heart' Star. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.–-7. 8393-8432). In a note, in English, after the same narrator, the younger sister of !kó–g!nuin–tára is stated to belong to the Early Race (which preceded the Bushmen in their country), (L VIII.-6. 6546 rev., note). The She-Hyena (who is jealous of !ko'-g !nuin-tara and her child) poisons !ko'-g !nuin-tara and she becomes a Lynx and trots away into the reeds. The She-Hyena adorns herself in !ko'-g !nuin-tara's ornaments and marries the Day's Heart star. The Day's Heart asks why his wife is not attending to the child. The younger sister goes to !ko'-g !nuin-tara so that she may feed her child, but !ko'-g !nuin-tara's memory of who she is becomes increasingly vague, and she advises her sister to no longer come. Meanwhile, the Day's Heart has discovered the deception and goes to his wife in the reeds. She charges out of the reeds, but stops for one of the goats that they have brought with them. The people hold her down and anoint her with goat's blood and she is returned to normal, except for her ears which remain long and pointed so that she can retain her good hearing.

Comments

1) p.8231v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an) and from his maternal grandmother (≠kammi), 2) p.8393v: the |xam name for a female hyena, 3) p.8394v: the names of the people who gave the poison to !ko'-g !nuin-tara, 4) p.8395v: the !huin plant and how it is eaten, 5) p.8398v: names for pieces of meat taken from the thigh of an animal; see Eating hare's meat, 6) p.8399v: (21 May 1879) see Wildcat turns into a lion; and 8400v: see Dead people are those who rode the rain, 7) p.8401v: the name of a water-pool with and without bushes, 8) p.8406v: see How children are carried, 9) p.8407v: the |xam term for 'to forget', 10) p.8414v: the dance or game called the !ku (which |han≠kass'o has not seen, but heard of from relatives), 11) p.8429v: |han≠kass'o demonstrates the tufts of hair on the lynx's ears with his fingers, 12) See also The Day's Heart star and More about the Day's Heart star: what he says to his daughter, 13) This story is found in Book VIII-27

Contributors

|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)

Date

24 April 1879 (started)

Categories

Celestial bodies and aeroscopy

Keywords

Day's Heart star (the Dawn's Heart star) , Day's Heart star (!ko'-g !nuin-tara and) , Day's Heart star (the Hyenas had made his heart angry) , Day's Heart star (anoints his wife with the contents of a goat's stomach) , Day's Heart star (removes his wife's Lynx-hair) , Day's Heart star (drives goats to !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , Day's Heart star (stabs the She-Hyena with his assegai) , Day's Heart star (hides and buries his child under the !huin plant) , Day's Heart star (and his younger sister-in-law, |xe-dde-yo'e) , Day's Heart star (is tricked and marries the She-Hyena) , Day's Heart star (mistakes the She-Hyena for his wife) , Day's Heart star (and the poisoning of his wife) , Day's Heart star (accounting for his appearance) , Day's Heart star (his eyes shine like fires) , Day's Heart star (and his wife !ko'-g !nuin-tara, the She-Lynx) , star (the Day's Heart) , star (the Dawn's Heart) , star (!ko'-g !nuin-tara and the Day's Heart) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (her story) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (and the Day's Heart star) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (is tranformed into a Lynx) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (the Day's Heart star anoints her with the contents of a goat's stomach) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (the Day's Heart star removes her Lynx-hair) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (keeps her ear tufts) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (springs on her sister as a Lynx) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (her memory leaves her) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (is poisoned) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (becomes a beast of prey) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (has Lynx-hair) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (lives in the reeds) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (how her sister and her husband capture her) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (her clothing and ornaments come off when she becomes a Lynx) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (the She-Hyena deceives and wears her ornaments) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (her 'thinking strings fall') , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (her 'thinking strings are still standing') , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (and the She-Hyena) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (and her child, the Day's Heart child) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (attacks her sister) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (and her younger sister, |xe-dde-yo'e) , !ko'-g !nuin-tara (and her husband, the Day's Heart star) , Day's Heart child (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara, her mother) , Day's Heart child (was buried under the !huin plant by her father, the Day's Heart star) , Day's Heart child (how her mother became a Lynx) , Lynx (accounting for the appearance of the lynx) , Lynx (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , Lynx (its ear tufts) , Early Race (or the First Bushmen) , Early Race (the Hyenas, the Jackals, the Blue Cranes and the Black Crows are people of) , Early Race (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , Early Race (and the Day's Heart star) , dance (called !ku) , dance (men nod and women clap in) , dance (or game) , dance (where the She-Hyena is exposed) , dance (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , !ku dance (men nod and women clap in) , !ku dance (or game) , !ku dance (where the She-Hyena is exposed) , !ku dance (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , thinking strings (memory, 'knowing' and recognition) , thinking strings (the falling of) , thinking strings (!ko'-g !nuin-tara's fall when she no longer recognises her sister) , thinking strings (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , game (or dance called !ku) , game (men nod and women clap in) , game (where the She-Hyena is exposed) , game (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , food (poisoned, is fed to !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , food (digging and sifting !haken) , food (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , perspiration (used to poison !ko'-g !nuin-tara, the She-Lynx) , perspiration (from the She-Hyena's armpits) , perspiration (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , Hyena (the She-Hyena) , Hyena (the people 'made a !ku' dance on her account) , Hyena (is exposed in the !ku dance) , Hyena (poisons !ko'-g !nuin-tara with blackened perspiration from the her armpits) , Hyena (is jealous of the She-Lynx) , Hyena (wants the Day's Heart child) , Hyena (burns her backside in the fire) , Hyena (her backside is pierced by the Day's Heart star) , Hyena (angers the Day's Heart star) , Hyena (tricks the Day's Heart star into marrying her) , Hyena (wears !ko'-g !nuin-tara's ornaments and things) , Hyena (accounting for the hyena's appearance) , Hyena (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , plant (!huin, where the Day's Heart star buries and hides the Day's Heart child) , plant (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , !huin plant (where the Day's Heart star buries and hides the Day's Heart child) , !huin plant (is eaten by people) , !huin plant (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , reeds (where !ko'-g !nuin-tara lives when she becomes a Lynx) , reeds (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , |xe-dde-yo'e (tells the Day's Heart star about the She-Hyena) , |xe-dde-yo'e (dances the !ku) , |xe-dde-yo'e (and the Day's Heart child) , |xe-dde-yo'e (is !ko'-g !nuin-tara's younger sister) , |xe-dde-yo'e (takes the Day's Heart child to her sister to feed) , |xe-dde-yo'e (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , beast of prey (!ko'-g !nuin-tara becomes a Lynx) , beast of prey (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , transformation (!ko'-g !nuin-tara becomes a Lynx) , transformation (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , names (an edible plant called !huin) , names (and the story of !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , names (the She–Lynx is called !ko'-g !nuin-tara) , names (!ko'-g !nuin-tara's younger sister is called |xe-dde-yo'e) , names (a dance or game called !ku) , names (a food called !haken)

Story Pages

8393-8432

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