The Girl who made Stars and other Bushman Stories de Gregory McNamee

The Girl who made Stars and other Bushman Stories

Gregory McNamee

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2001

These beautiful and timeless stories from the African Bush were gathered more than a century ago and have touched thousands of readers ever since. The South African-born author, Sir Laurens van der Post, revered them and helped to make them known throughout the world. For this special new edition, Gregory McNamee has adapted the original nineteenth-century English translations to create modern versions of the stories for readers without a prior knowledge of the Bushman ways of life. The stories carry universal observations and truths and, with their historical and ethnographic roots in the African Bushman culture, they are fascinating and educational for readers and listeners of all ages. They bear powerful testimony to a desert people living at one with Nature.

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Introduction; The Mantis Assumes the Form of a Hartebeest; Gaunu-tsaxau, the Baboons, and the Mantis; The Story of the Leopard Tortoise; The Hyena's Revenge; The Lion Jealous of the Voice of the Ostrich; The Resurrection of the Ostrich; The Vultures, Their Elder Sister, and Her Husband; The Stone Man, the Lioness, and the Children; The Mason Wasp and His Wife; The Frog's Story; The Narru and Her Husband; The Young Man of the Ancient Race; Who Was Carried off by a Lion; The Children Are Sent to Throw the Sleeping Sun into the Sky; The Wife of the Dawn's Heart Star; The Origin of Death; Do Not Look at the Moon when Game Has Been Shot; The Girl Who Made Stars; The Great Star Gaunu, Singing, Names the Other Stars; What the Stars Say; The Child of the Wind; The Wind; Kagara and Haunu, Who Fought Each Other with Lightning; A Woman of the Early Race and the Rain Bull; The Song of the Caama Fox; The Songs of the Blue Crane; The Old Woman's Song; A Song Sung by the Star Gaunu, and by Bushman Women; Sirius and Canopus; The Song of the Bustard; The Song of the Springbok Mothers; A Song on the Loss of a Tobacco Pouch; The Broken String; The Death of the Lizard; The Song of the Leopard; Prayer to the Young Moon; The Leopard and the Jackal; Doings of the Springbok; Habits of the Bat and the Porcupine; The Kaukau Bird and the Wild Cat; The Baboons and the Hunter; A Lion's Story; The Man Who Found a Lion in a Cave; Some Hunting Observations; Bushman Presentiments; Prayers for the Arrival of Canopus and Sirius; The Use of the Goin-goin; Getting Rid of Bad Dreams; Two Apparitions; The Jackal's Heart Is Not to Be Eaten; Signs Made by Bushmen to Show Where They Have Gone; A Bushman, Becoming Faint from the Sun's Heat,; Throws Earth into the Air; Death; Snakes, Lizards, and a Certain Small Antelope,; When Seen Near Graves, Are to Be Respected; The Relations of Wind, Moon & Cloud to Humans After Death.