Tsuni-llGoam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-khoiTrübner, 1881 - 154 pages |
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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
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Page 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?
Page 100 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 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.