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Khoekhoe (/ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ KOY-koy) (or Khoikhoi in former orthography) [a] are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa. They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San (literally "Foragers") peoples.
ǃXu is the Khoikhoi word ǃKhub 'rich man, master', which was used by some Christian missionaries to translate "Lord" in the Bible, and repeated by San people in reporting what the Khoikhoi told them. [5] It is used in Juǀʼhoan as the word for the Christian god. It has been misinterpreted as the "Bushman creator".
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]
Competition between Dutch and Khoikhoi pastoralists over grazing land led to livestock theft and conflict. [20] The Khoikhoi were ultimately expelled from the peninsula by force, after a succession of wars. The first Khoikhoi–Dutch War broke out in 1659, the second in 1673, and the third 1674–1677. [21]
Twyfelfontein valley has been inhabited by Stone-age hunter-gatherers of the Wilton stone age culture group since approximately 6,000 years ago. They made most of the engravings and probably all the paintings. 2,000 to 2,500 years ago the Khoikhoi, an ethnic group related to the San (), occupied the valley, then known under its Damara/Nama name ǀUi-ǁAis (jumping waterhole).
Hahn, Theophilus (1881) Tsuni-Goam, the Supreme Being of the Khoi-Khoi Trübner, London; Kidd, Dudley (1904) The Essential Kafir A. and C. Black, London; Massey, Gerald (1881) Book of the Beginnings, containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines [sic] of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the ...
Heitsi-eibib, also known as Haiseb or Haitse-aibeb, is a mythic hero figure in the mythology of the Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe people, who originated in southwestern Africa. [1] He is sometimes depicted as a trickster , and with Gaunab and Tsui’goab, is a central figure in Khoekhoe folklore .
David Witbooi was the first Khoikhoi leader to establish a permanent Namaqua settlement north Orange River beginning in the mid-1840s. In 1863, he eventually led his people to Gibeon (south-central Namibia) where he developed a communialist society centered on cattle, trade and Christianity.