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Story: The rain (and eating tortoises)
The rain (and eating tortoises)
Title
The rain (and eating tortoises)
Collection
Summary
Certain serpents and tortoises supposed to be kept in store by the Rain. (L VIII.-16. 7431 rev. and 7432 rev.). For fear of arousing the wrath of the Rain, a certain kind of tortoise is not to be eaten by young unmarried men and women. The Rain to be addressed when it appears to be displeased. (L VIII.-26. 8303-8309. The manner in which the Rain is addressed by the old men. (L VIII.-26. 8304 rev. and 8305 rev., note).
Comments
1) p.8302v: the |xam names of some of |han≠kass'o's relations (who told |han≠kass'o this story), 2) p.8304v: what |han≠kass'o's grandfather and old men say to the rain, 3) p.8305v: why the rain is ashamed, 4) p.8307v: what white men and the |xam call the falling rainwater, 5) p.8308v: see: An illustration of the use of ddabba-i, 6) This story is found in Book VIII-26
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
6 – 8 March 1879
Categories
Keywords
rain (the Rain) , rain (!khwa or !khoa) , rain (goes away with its tail between its legs) , rain (is made ashamed) , rain (is addressed by a man with a good heart) , rain (respecting) , rain (scolding) , rain (the education of children concerning) , rain (is angry, or wrathful) , rain (the old man's address to) , rain (|han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi's address to) , rain (what |han≠kass'o's relations told him about) , rain (is asked to fall gently) , rain (its liquid) , rain (what the |xam call it) , rain (what the white men call it) , rain (and thunder and lightning) , rain ('lightens') , rain (its clouds) , rain (when thundering, 'sounds hollowly') , rain (and its things) , rain (its tortoise must not be eaten by young unmarried men and women) , rain (eating its things prohibited) , tortoise (eating of prohibited) , tortoise (and the rain) , tortoise (is the rain's thing) , tortoise (must not be eaten by young men and women) , tortoise (eating it angers the rain) , food (avoidance of tortoise and the rain's things) , food (the rain's things must not be eaten) , food (tortoise must not be eaten by unmarried men and women) , food (and respect for the rain) , |han≠kass'o (the names of some of his relations) , |han≠kass'o (his grandfather Tsatsi's address to the rain) , |han≠kass'o (what his relations told him about the rain) , |han≠kass'o (his personal history) , address (to the rain) , address (to the angry rain) , address (|han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi's to the rain) , address (what old men say to the rain) , address (by a man with a good heart who does not scold it) , name (of Rain is !khwa or !khoa) , name (what the |xam call the rain) , name (what the white men call the rain) , name (names of |han≠kass'o's relations) , personal history (the names of some of |han≠kass'o's relations) , personal history (|han≠kass'o's grandfather Tsatsi's address to the rain) , education (of children concerning the rain and eating tortoise) , education (about respecting the rain's things) , education (what |han≠kass'o's relations told him about the rain) , teaching (children about the rain and eating tortoise) , teaching (about respecting the rain's things) , teaching (what |han≠kass'o's relations told him about the rain)
Story Pages
8303-8309
