 Cagn, are we not your children? Do you not see our hunger ? Give us food.'" Where Cagn is Qing did not know, "but the elands know. Have you not hunted and heard his cry when the elands suddenly run to his call  Myth, Ritual and Religion - Page 32by Andrew Lang - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1878 - 970 pages
...as the first being and creator of all things), answered, in a low imploring tone : " Oh, Cagn; oh, Cagn, are we not your children ? do you not see our hunger ? give us food ;" " and," he added, " he gives us both hands full." 3 It further appears that the Bushmen address... | |
 | English periodicals - 1878 - 794 pages
...as the first being and creator of all things), answered, in a low imploring tone : " Oh, Cagn ; oh, Cagn, are we not your children ? do you not see our hunger ? give us food ; " "and,'' he added, " he gives us both hands full." 3 It further appears that the Bushmen address... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - Anthropology - 1879 - 422 pages
...tribe as the first being and creator of all things), answered, in a low, imploring tone: ' O Cagn, O Cagn, are we not your children? do you not see our hunger? Give us food;' ' and,' he added,' he gives us both hands full.' 2 It further appears that the Bushmen address petitions... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - Anthropology - 1879 - 400 pages
...tribe as the first being and creator of all things), answered, in a low, imploring tone : ' O Cagn, O Cagn, are we not your children? do you not see our hunger? Give us food ; ' ' and,' he added, ' he gives us both hands full.' 2 It further appears that the Bushmen address... | |
 | Brooke Lambert - 1883 - 98 pages
...representation of a god, and sees this grasshopper about to devour his crops, cries out O Cagu, Cagu ! are we not your children? Do you not see our hunger ? give us food. And he gives us, says the Bushman, both hands full.* That is the earlyworship of the Good Spirit. There... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - Electronic journals - 1918 - 700 pages
...so many things." I said, " How do you pray to him ?" Answer, in a low imploring tone, " ' O Cagn ! O Cagn ! are we not your children, do you not see our hunger ? give us food,' and he gives us both hands full." I said, " Where is Cagn ? " He answered, " We don't know, but the... | |
 | George William Stow - Ethnology - 1905 - 690 pages
...as to the manner in which Bushmen prayed to him, he responded in a low imploring tone " O Cagn ! O Cagn ! are we not your children ? Do you not see our hunger ? Give us food ! " and he gives us both our hands full." When an inquiry was made whether he could tell where 'Kaang... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - Anthropology - 1908 - 914 pages
...native said to Mr. Orpen that Cagn made all things, and that the people prayed to him :— " O Cagn ! O Cagn ! are we not your children, do you not see our hunger? Give us food." And he gave them what they asked for both hands full. But although he was at first very good and nice,... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - Comparative literature - 1911 - 492 pages
...stomachs filled. Kaang! bring me a male gnu under my arrows." Another prayer 37 runs thus: "O Cagn! O Cagn! are we not your children? Do you not see our hunger? Give us food! " This is how one group of the Kwai explain the origin of the sun. 38 " Long long ago Sun was a man.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1096 pages
..." Is Cagn good or malicious? how do you pray to him?" Answer (in a low imploring tone): "'0 Cagn! O Cagn! are we not your children? do you not see our hunger? give us food;' and he gives us both hands full " (Cape Monthly Magazine, July 1874). Here we sec the religious view... | |
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