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Story: The !kau who brought home his own flesh as food
The !kau who brought home his own flesh as food
Title
The !kau who brought home his own flesh as food
Collection
Summary
A tale of the Early Race about the !khau lizard, who brings home his own flesh as food so that his wife will think he has brought home a Quagga. Eventually the wife tells their child to go out with his father and see what flesh he is bringing and the child sees his father go into a whirlwind and come out rolling his flesh in a net. The woman throws away the husband's flesh and leaves him for her father's people.
Comments
1) See also Song of the !kau's child, 2) p.7113v: |han≠kass'o heard this story from his mother (|xabbi-an), 3) p.7119opp: about an insect, 4) p.7119v: see Aquilae's water, 5) p.7139v: how people swallow raw liver, 6) See also The death of the !kau (a lizard of the genus Agama) and Song of the !kau's child, and Remarks by |han≠kass'o on the preceding story (The death of the !kau), 7) This story is found in Books VIII-12 and Book VIII-13
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
29 June 1878 (started)
Categories
Keywords
Early Race (food eaten by) , Early Race (the First People, or Bushmen, or !xwe ||na ss'o !kui) , Early Race (and the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , Early Race (when animals were people) , Early Race (when people were foolish) , lizard (of the genus Agama) , lizard (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , !khau (!kau) , !khau (Agama lizard) , !khau (his wife) , !khau (his child) , !khau (his child's song) , !khau (his flesh resembles the Quagga's) , !khau (who resembles the Quagga) , !khau (brings home his own flesh as food) , !khau (was a person) , !khau (and the whirlwind) , whirlwind (its dust) , whirlwind (the !khau goes into) , whirlwind (and the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , food (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as) , Quagga (the !khau's flesh resembles) , Quagga (the !khau's wife's people hunt real) , Quagga (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , song (of the !khau's child to the scrap of 'liver') , song (to the 'lizard-scrap') , song (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , foolish (when people were) , foolish (the First Bushmen were) , foolish (the !khau was) , foolish (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , Agama lizard (!kau) , Agama lizard (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , Agama lizard (|xam names of) , names (|xam, of the Agama lizard) , names (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , dust (from the whirlwind the !khau goes into) , dust (the !khau who brought home his own flesh as food) , flesh (the !khau who brought home his own as food)
Story Pages
7114-7118, 7119-7156
