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In 2019, scientists from the University of the Free State discovered 8,000-year-old carvings made by the Khoisan people. The carvings depicted a hippopotamus, horse, and antelope in the 'Rain Snake' Dyke of the Vredefort impact structure, which may have spiritual significance regarding the rain-making mythology of the Khoisan. [27]
The San religion is the traditional religion and mythology of the San people. It is poorly attested due to their interactions with Christianity. ... Quellen zur ...
Sigrid Schmidt created a whole system of classification for Khoisan folktales. Tale type 707, in this system, was numbered KH 1125 and named "The mother of the boy(s) with a moon on his chest or forehead was banished but finally she was allowed back".
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]
However, Hottentot also continued to be used through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries in a wider sense, to include all of the people now usually referred to with the modern term Khoisan (not only the Khoikhoi, but also the San people, hunter-gatherer populations from the interior of southern Africa who had not been known to ...
Khoisan is a catch-all term for the "non-Bantu" indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. Khoisan may also refer to: Khoisan mythology; Khoisan languages, a group of distinct African languages that use click consonants and do not belong to other African language families; Khoisan X (Benny Alexander; 1955–2010), South African political activist
Khoikhoi mythology (1 P) Khoisan languages (3 C, 7 P) N. Nama people (1 C, 34 P) Pages in category "Khoekhoe" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 ...
Kushite mythology (central parts of Sudan with origins in Kerma culture) Bantu mythology (Central, Southeast, Southern Africa) Gikuyu mythology (Kenya) Akamba mythology; Abaluhya mythology (Kenya) Dinka religion (South Sudan) Malagasy mythology ; Maasai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania, Ouebian) Kalenjin mythology (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania)