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Story: The young woman who disobeyed her mother, and fell in with the two Lions (!haue ta ≠hou and !gu)
Title
The young woman who disobeyed her mother, and fell in with the two Lions (!haue ta ≠hou and !gu)
Collection
Summary
The Young Woman of the early race whose breast was caught in a cleft of the rock. Her escape from the Two Lions. By /han≠kass’o (L VIII.-32. 8821-8842). A tale of the Early Race in which a lazy young woman's breast gets stuck in the cleft of a rock. The two Lions (!haue ta ≠hou and !gu) approach her (intending to kill her), but she convinces them to go and drink water before eating her. She commands the water to 'Go away yonder!' and the Lions follow it in vain. She cuts off her nipple, releasing her breast from the rock, and pounds it together with !kai from the Lions' bag to make two balls which she leaves at the rock. When the Lions return they wonder where the girl has gone. Her nipple ball answers 'I am her!'. The two Lions spend the night trying to catch the girl and hurting their teeth biting at the rocks.
Comments
1) p.8820v: |han≠kass'o heard this from his mother (|xabbi-an), 2) p.8821v: see Note on lizards; what people call a little stick, 3) p.8822v: (24 November 1879) the song of the young woman who was cursed by her mother, 4) p.8825v: crows and death; see Birds await the death of a thing, 5) p.8826v: (23 November 1879) spoiling water; the names of two stars; parts of the human ear, 6) p.8827v: the Lions formerly used stone knives, 7) p.8828v: |han≠kass'o speculates about !kai; how people make 'meal' of meat when springbok are numerous, 8) p.8837v: !gu is the Lion who understood, 9) See also Note on the two Lions and The song of the young woman, as she returned home, 10) This story is found in Book VIII-32
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
20 November 1879 (started)
Categories
Keywords
Early Race (or First Bushmen) , Early Race (and the young woman who disobeyed her mother, and fell in with the two Lions) , young woman (who sits singing about how her nipple is trapped in the 'cleft's mouth') , young woman (pounds her nipple along with !kai) , young woman (her piece of flesh talks to the two Lions, speaking with a small voice) , young woman (tells the two Lions she is fat) , young woman (deceives and escapes from the two Lions) , young woman (her nipple talks to the Lions) , young woman (commands the water) , young woman (who disobeyed her mother, and fell in with the two Lions) , young woman (who cut off her nipple with a broken arrow) , young woman (her breast gets caught in the cleft of a rock) , young woman (her mother curses her) , Lions (the two Lions called !haue ta ≠hou and !gu) , Lions (cut up meat with stone knives) , Lions (!gu understands) , Lions (the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with them) , Lions (are people of the Early Race) , Lions (how the young woman escapes them) , Lions (blame each other for the young woman's escape) , Lions (hurt their teeth biting the rocks) , Lions (the young woman's nipple or piece of flesh talks to them) , Lions (are tricked by the young woman) , Lions (run after the disappearing water) , death (and the doings of crows) , death (and the young woman who says 'the spoor of the crows abounds by me') , death (and birds that wait for) , death (and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , lizards (methods of poking them out) , lizards (are found in rocks) , lizards (and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , curse (of the young woman by her mother) , curse (of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , crows (wait for people to die) , crows (and the young woman who says 'the spoor of the crows abounds by me') , crows (and death) , crows (and the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , breast (the young woman's nipple is caught in the cleft of a rock) , breast (of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , water (floats away from the two Lions) , water (the young woman tells it to 'Go away yonder!') , water (spoiling it) , water (the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , song (of the young woman about how her nipple is trapped in the 'cleft's mouth') , song (of the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , name (the two Lions are called !haue ta ≠hou and !gu) , name (!kai from the Lions' bag) , name (the young woman who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions) , woman (the young woman of the Early Race who disobeyed her mother and fell in with the two Lions)
Story Pages
8821-8841
