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Original Articles

Symbol and authority in Mpondo ancestor religion

Part 1

Pages 113-133 | Published online: 24 Feb 2007

  • 1984 . African Studies , 43 ( 1 )
  • Khoisan . “ UThixo and uQamata ” .
  • 1964 . “the Cape Hottentot Thixwa or Tiqwa, found also as Tsui//oap in Nama” . 797 Doke and Vilakazi .
  • 1982 . “San names for the supreme being derived from //Gaua, who was conceived both as the ghosts of the dead and as a personified being . . . Among the Heikum of Etosha Pan ,/Gamab was spoken of as the creator who received the souls of the dead” . 46 Hodgson .
  • Hammond‐Tooke . 1981b . “ I adopt the phrase “ancestor religion” .
  • Lamia . 1981 . “African diseases” . 29 – 33 . discusses what he calls
  • Kropf ( 1915 ) does not record the word umlaza for Xhosa
  • Zulu . 1964 . ukulaza , 452 Doke and Vilakazi .
  • 1905 . “to become stale, lose weight, pass season without fertilization (of cattle)” . 352 Bryant
  • Kropf . 1915 . “The ceremony of killing a beast as a kind of sacrifice for one who is dead” . 489 translates izila:
  • Kgaga . 1981a . thefifi , 120 Hammond‐Tooke . called
  • Monnig . 1967 . sefifi 141
  • Zulu . 1977 . umnyama , 80 Ngubane .
  • Mönnig . 1967 . ditšhila 141
  • Southern Sotho . 1961 . ditshila , 460 Paroz .
  • Mpondo . izila
  • Sotho and Mpondo . dišhila (ditshila) nouns,
  • Kiernan . 1982 . “The ‘problem of evil’ ” . in a paper on
  • Mpondo vernacular isiko means “habitual or usual practice, common way of acting” (Shorter Oxford Dictionary) .
  • Soga . 1931 . “sacrifice” . 240 Hunter . translates idini simply by

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