The Wind and the Bird
(Naron Bushman Song)
The Wind is a man and goes out from his hut.
As a bird, Xgauwa goes with the Wind:
one with two names are they, Xgauwa and Hise.
The Wind has the bird with him and he walks a little way
but no more: from the earth he rises,
into the sky he shoots up, he soars
and he takes the grass and whirls it far
scatters it so it falls a great distance.
The magician sees the one walking with the Wind,
it is Xgauwa, and the bird speaks to him saying
‘I am he who arouses the Wind’ (after W.H.I. Bleek; Cope 1968:247).
Submission Name: A Naron Bushman Song
