But the hare, when I tried to tell him about this - when I tried to tell him that his mother had not really died, but that she only slept - the hare was the one who said that his mother did not sleep, that she had altogether died. I had intended that ye who are people, ye should resemble me and do the things I do. Before I said that when ye died, ye should again arise, ye should not altogether die - just the way that when I die, I again return living. But the hare contradicted me, when I told him that.”Īnd the Moon spoke further, saying: “Ye who are people, when ye die ye shall altogether vanish away. When I am dead, I return, and once I return I am living once again. “I told the hare,” the Moon went on, “that all people should be like me, and do that which I do. The hare was not willing to agree with me when I told him that his mother was not altogether dead, but would return to living once again. For the hare was not willing to agree with me when I told him that he should not cry for his mother. “And they who are human beings,” said the Moon, “when they die, they too shall altogether die, and never return to living once again. (Photo credit: Lepus Capensis, Kibuyu, CC 2.0 BY-NC-SA.) If the dogs catch him, they will bit him and tear him to pieces, and he will altogether die, and never return to living once again.”Ībove: An African hare. “And the dogs shall always chase him, and he shall have to spring away, doubling back and forth as he tries to run away. “The hare shall always bear this scar on his face,” said the Moon. And the Moon gave the hare the form that all hares have today, with a lip that is in two parts, and longs legs for running. “The hare’s mouth shall always be like this,” said the Moon. So the Moon hit the hare in the mouth, splitting the hare’s lip. The Moon became angry that this young hare should speak this way, and not agree with what the Moon said. I know that my mother will not become alive again. “I am not willing to be silent,” said the hare. When I am dead, I return, and once I return I am living once again.” She will return to living once again, just as I do. “You should leave off crying,” he said to the hare. Seeing this, the hare cried out for his mother. She would not return to life, for she was altogether dead. There was a young male hare whose mother died. And when they died, they did not die forever, for after a time they would return to living once again. In the beginning, the hares looked much like a human beings. Having said this prayer, once a man of the San people named Dia!kwain followed the prayer by telling this story: It used to be that you told us that we also should return, It was the hare that told you that you should do this. You always return, alive again, after we lose sight of you. We no longer saw you, and then you came again. When you have died, Moon, you return, alive again When the San people first saw the new moon, they would look towards it, and put their hands over their eyes, and say this: The Moon and the Hare: A story about How Death Came into the World The people who once spoke |Xam are part of a larger ethnic group commonly referred to as “Bushmen,” although it’s more proper to call them the San people. The |Xam language is now extinct - that is, there is no one left alive who grew up speaking this language. (People who rider horse sometimes use a similar sound to urge a horse forward.)
The symbol || represents a lateral click - you cover the whole roof of your mouth with your tongue, and make the click noise as far bak in your mouth as possible. The symbol ! represents a “cerebral click” - you make this noise by curling up the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and withdrawing it suddenly. The symbol | represents a dental click - you make this sound by pressing the tip of your tongue against your upper front teeth, and withdrawing it suddenly.
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Here’s how to pronounce the click sounds taht appear in this story: This story was originally told by a man named Dia!kwain, who lived in the southern part of Africa over a hundred years ago, and spoke the |Xam language. THE MOON AND THE HARE: A STORY FROM THE SAN PEOPLE Beginnings: Myths and stories from world religionsĪ curriculum for upper elementary grades by Dan Harperīack to Table of Contents | On to Session 2
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