Tsuni-llGoam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-khoiTrübner, 1881 - 154 Seiten |
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... colours of the rain- bow gradually flowing into one another originated the idea of the number seven I cannot tell , but I think it possible . || Khaisi or || khaisa , eight , is very clear from the root Ikhai , to turn ; thus || khaisi ...
... colours of the rain- bow gradually flowing into one another originated the idea of the number seven I cannot tell , but I think it possible . || Khaisi or || khaisa , eight , is very clear from the root Ikhai , to turn ; thus || khaisi ...
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... coloured one , Jawab , the red one , ! nubub , the short one , gaxub , the tall one , & c . , are used . In exactly the same way the daughters are called after the father ; for instance , Xam - jhab being the father , the suffix s of ...
... coloured one , Jawab , the red one , ! nubub , the short one , gaxub , the tall one , & c . , are used . In exactly the same way the daughters are called after the father ; for instance , Xam - jhab being the father , the suffix s of ...
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... and who still lived in national primi- tive independence . Nothing , however , is more convincing of the abstract power of the Khoikhoi language than the great number of names for the various divisions and subdivisions of colours 25.
... and who still lived in national primi- tive independence . Nothing , however , is more convincing of the abstract power of the Khoikhoi language than the great number of names for the various divisions and subdivisions of colours 25.
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... colours . The colour itself is isib - i.e . , appearance . It must be remembered that the colours named in the fol- lowing are not all which are known to the Khoikhoi , which must surprise the more if we recollect that they have been ...
... colours . The colour itself is isib - i.e . , appearance . It must be remembered that the colours named in the fol- lowing are not all which are known to the Khoikhoi , which must surprise the more if we recollect that they have been ...
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... coloured , from Jau , to bleed , or lau - b , blood . Huni is yellow , that is , the colour of clay or ground , from ! hu - b , ground , earth , clay . Gama , brown , is the colour of gab , originally ‡ gamab , the colour of a vley ...
... coloured , from Jau , to bleed , or lau - b , blood . Huni is yellow , that is , the colour of clay or ground , from ! hu - b , ground , earth , clay . Gama , brown , is the colour of gab , originally ‡ gamab , the colour of a vley ...
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amongst ancestor Ariseb Aryan Auni Bantu believe branches Bushman called Cape Hottentots Cape Town cattle chief clicks cloth cloud Colony colour comparative custom Dawn derived Dutch Edition English especially etymology father Gama-‡gorib Gaunab German give goab grave Gurikhoisib Gurub Hahn hare Heitsi Heitsi-eibib Herero hole Hottentot India Jager Afrikaner Kafir Kalihari Khab khoi Khoikhoi language Khoikhoi mythology Khoikhoi tribes Khub Khubitsaos Khunuseti killed Kolb Kora kraal legend Liechtenstein lightning Lion lived Lord Martin Haug Max Müller milk mission missionary moon mother mountain myth mythology Namaqualand Namaquas Nanub natives original meaning Orion Orlam Parsis Pleiades Post 8vo race rain reed-dance religion religious ideas river root sacred Sanskrit Saranyu Schmelen sheep sing snake so-called sorcerer South Africa stars stone suffix superstition thou thunder thunder-cloud told Translated travellers tree Tsui Tsuillgoab Tusib Urisib Valentyn Vide wife word worship Zulu
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 146 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Seite 100 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Seite 146 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.