Tsuni-llGoam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-khoiTrübner, 1881 - 154 Seiten |
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... It is useless therefore to extirpate it , for the custom of more than two centuries has sanctioned its use ; and all we can do is to define it more accurately . We should apply the term Hottentot to the whole race , and call the 2.
... It is useless therefore to extirpate it , for the custom of more than two centuries has sanctioned its use ; and all we can do is to define it more accurately . We should apply the term Hottentot to the whole race , and call the 2.
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... custom still , when they first came in contact with the black Bantu races ; for the Zulus have the same word || ama for marrying - viz . , buying a wife , a word which , from its click , shows the Khoikhoi origin . It is now clear that ...
... custom still , when they first came in contact with the black Bantu races ; for the Zulus have the same word || ama for marrying - viz . , buying a wife , a word which , from its click , shows the Khoikhoi origin . It is now clear that ...
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... custom or an intrinsic peculiarity . Taras is also a woman of rank , a lady . In every Khoikhoi's house the woman , or taras , is the supreme ruler ; the husband has nothing at all to say . While in public the men take the prominent ...
... custom or an intrinsic peculiarity . Taras is also a woman of rank , a lady . In every Khoikhoi's house the woman , or taras , is the supreme ruler ; the husband has nothing at all to say . While in public the men take the prominent ...
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... custom will guide us , when in the sequel we have to explain the relationship of mytho- logical persons . There is , for instance , Urisib , the son of Heitsi - eibib . Our old storyteller did not give us the name of the wife of Urisib ...
... custom will guide us , when in the sequel we have to explain the relationship of mytho- logical persons . There is , for instance , Urisib , the son of Heitsi - eibib . Our old storyteller did not give us the name of the wife of Urisib ...
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... customs ; and the Christian ideas introduced by missionaries have amalgamated to such a degree with the national religious ideas and mythologies , that for this reason I have in the following pages preferred to give less than I could ...
... customs ; and the Christian ideas introduced by missionaries have amalgamated to such a degree with the national religious ideas and mythologies , that for this reason I have in the following pages preferred to give less than I could ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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.