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Tricksters & Trancers: Bushman Religion and Society. Indiana: Indiana University Press. Hastings, James (2003). Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Part 2. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 0-7661-3670-1. Heinz, H-J. 1975. Elements of ǃKo Bushmen religious beliefs. Anthropos 70:17–41. Hewitt, R.L. (1986). Narratives of the Southern San. Quellen zur ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 71,201 San people were enumerated in Namibia in 2023, ... Smith describes the San's struggles, history, and beliefs in great ...
Sant Mat was a spiritual movement on the Indian subcontinent during the 13th–17th centuries CE.The name literally means "teachings of sants", i.e. mystic Hindu saints. Through association and seeking truth by following sants and their teachings, a movement was for
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The new religious movement Eckankar is considered by some to be an offshoot of the Sant Mat tradition. Paul Twitchell, who founded Eckankar, was an initiate of Kirpal Singh. [1] The similar to Eckancar American syncretistic Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness was founded in 1971 by John-Roger Hinkins. [1]
ǀKaggen is a trickster who is able to shape shift into the form of any animal. [6] He is most frequently represented as a praying mantis but also takes the form of a bull eland, a louse, a snake, and a caterpillar.
Wilmsen makes another statement against the traditionalists when he says, “The isolation in which they are said to have been found is a creation of our own view of them, not of their history as they lived it.” [4] He is beginning to say that anthropologists’ judgment is clouded because they already have a predisposed view of the San and ...
In the culture of the San (various groups of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Angola), healers administer a wide range of practices, from oral remedies containing plant and animal material, making cuts on the body and rubbing in 'potent' substances, inhaling smoke of smoldering organic matter like certain twigs or animal dung, wearing parts of ...