Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The compound term Khoisan / Khoesān is a modern anthropological convention in use since the early-to-mid 20th century. Khoisan is a coinage by Leonhard Schulze in the 1920s and popularised by Isaac Schapera. [5] It entered wider usage from the 1960s based on the proposal of a "Khoisan" language family by Joseph Greenberg.
The ǀXam prayed to the Sun and Moon. Many myths are ascribed to various stars. ǀKágge̥n (sometimes corrupted to "Cagn" [1]) is Mantis, a demiurge and hero in ǀXam folklore. [2] He is a trickster god who can shape-shift. He and his wife ǀHúnntuǃattǃatte̥n.
The scholar David Lewis-Williams recounts a variation of the eland myth involving the meerkats. ǀKaggen's daughter the porcupine married the meerkat, kwammang-a. [10] They had the mongoose as a son. [10] The mongoose was close to his grandfather ǀKaggen. [16] ǀKaggen used to take honey to feed his favourite, the eland. [17]
Map of modern distribution of "Khoisan" languages. The territories shaded blue and green, and those to their east, are those of San peoples. The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. [2]
The boy tells the whole story and shows Bulane the moon birthmark. Bulane takes the boy to his village and places him in his hut, and summons a great meeting, with slaughtered oxen and beer. Before the assembled crowd, Bulane introduces the boy with the moon on the breast as his son, dresses his mother in fine clothes, appoints his son as his ...
The religious mythology of the Khoe-speaking cultures gives special significance to the Moon, which may have been viewed as the physical manifestation of a supreme being associated with heaven. Thiǁoab (Tsui'goab) is also believed to be the creator and the guardian of health, while ǁGaunab is primarily an evil being, who causes sickness or ...
The aigamuxa (a.k.a. 'Bushmen') are legendary creatures of the Khoikhoi people. [1] Its main diet is humans, which it regards as zebras, and eats with its extremely elongated teeth. [2]
The ǃKung people of Southern Africa recognize a Supreme Being, ǃXu, who is the Creator and Upholder of life. [4] Like other African High Gods, he also punishes man by means of the weather, and the Otjimpolo-ǃKung know him as Erob, who "knows everything". [5]