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Story: The Ichneumon's speech when |kaggen (the Mantis) had taken away the Meerkats' possessions
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The Ichneumon's speech when |kaggen (the Mantis) had taken away the Meerkats' possessions
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Summary
The Ichneumon’s speech, when the Mantis had deprived the Suricats of their possessions, is in the curious language in which the Ichneumon is supposed to speak, and in which all the clicks are converted into sounds like ts, tsy, ty, dy, etc., and other modifications also take place. (B XXIV. 2251–2255). The Ichneumon's speech in which he says that the Meerkats (suricates) cry on account of the loss of their things, which |kaggen (the Mantis) has taken to his house and hung upon the Krieboom tree that grows outside (after dreaming it so). They are likely to die of the cold and are angry because their karosses still hang on the tree.
Comments
1) p.2251v: the Meerkats 'don't cry with tears, but with their thoughts, they think so much about it', 2) See also How the Ichneumon discovered what the Mantis did with the honey and The |kaggen who took |kammanga's shoe, and turned it into an eland and The origin of the Moon (in Lloyd's notebooks), 3) This story is found in Book XXIV
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Date
1873
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Keywords
Ichneumon (speech of) , Ichneumon (the language spoken by) , Ichneumon (his speech when |kaggen had taken away the Meerkats' possessions) , |kaggen (the Mantis) , |kaggen (dreams of the Meerkats' things) , |kaggen (takes the Meerkats' possessions) , |kaggen (and the Ichneumon's speech) , |kaggen ('grandfather') , |kaggen ('old man') , |kaggen (names of) , Meerkats (the Suricats) , Meerkats (possessions of) , Meerkats (things of) , Meerkats (their things hung on Krieboom) , Meerkats (|kaggen takes possessions of) , Meerkats (the Ichneumon's speech and) , Meerkats (doings of) , Meerkats (actions of) , Meerkats (diet of) , Meerkats (people who shall not chew flesh of) , Meerkats (cry) , Meerkats (cry with their 'thoughts') , Krieboom tree (the Meerkats' things hang on) , Krieboom tree (the Ichneumon's speech and) , tree (Krieboom) , tree (when |kaggen had taken away the Meerkats' possessions) , things (when |kaggen took away the Meerkats' possessions) , dream (|kaggen's of the Meerkats' possessions) , speech (the Ichneumon's when |kaggen had taken away the Meerkats' possessions) , speech (and the language spoken by the Ichneumon) , tears (of the Meerkats when |kaggen had taken away their possessions) , tears (the Meerkats 'don't cry with tears, but with their thoughts, they think so much about it') , language (spoken by the Ichneumon) , language (the Ichneumon's speech when |kaggen had taken away the Meerkats' possessions) , thought (the Meerkats cry with theirs) , thought (and the Ichneumon's speech) , names (of |kaggen) , names (and the Ichneumon's speech) , kaross (of the Meerkats hung on the Krieboom tree)
Story Pages
2251-2255
