Excerpt from my new book: “Flowers in the Sky – a celebration of southern African starlore”
and the stars know, because the stars are maidens,
beautiful dead maidens that the rain has fetched,
and of them made flowers in the sky,
flowers growing in the water,
they are the wives of the water,
and should be left in peace.
(Diä!kwain, /Xam Bushman
The Stars Say Tsau)