Tsuni-{u01C1}Goam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-KhoiTrübner & Company, Ludgate Hill, 1881 - 154 pages |
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... Heitsi - eibib , their great - grandfather , had a second wife . And the laws of succession and inheritance are now - a - days the same among the surviving tribes as they were before their separation . Law , thanub means what is right ...
... Heitsi - eibib , their great - grandfather , had a second wife . And the laws of succession and inheritance are now - a - days the same among the surviving tribes as they were before their separation . Law , thanub means what is right ...
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... Heitsi - eibib . Our old storyteller did not give us the name of the wife of Urisib . But from knowing her son's name to be Urisib , we quite correctly infer that her name certainly was Urisi - s . The eldest daughter was highly ...
... Heitsi - eibib . Our old storyteller did not give us the name of the wife of Urisib . But from knowing her son's name to be Urisib , we quite correctly infer that her name certainly was Urisi - s . The eldest daughter was highly ...
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... Heitsieibib , Tsu - llgoab and the Moon , all were endowed with the power of prophecy . I have already shown in the forms derived from khoi , that the Khoikhoi are able to form abstract words . This distinguishes them most favourably ...
... Heitsieibib , Tsu - llgoab and the Moon , all were endowed with the power of prophecy . I have already shown in the forms derived from khoi , that the Khoikhoi are able to form abstract words . This distinguishes them most favourably ...
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... The sacred hymns are generally prayers , invocations , and songs of praise in honour of Tsu || goab , Heitsieibib , and the Moon ; and such sacred songs , and the performance with dancing is called Igeib while the 27.
... The sacred hymns are generally prayers , invocations , and songs of praise in honour of Tsu || goab , Heitsieibib , and the Moon ; and such sacred songs , and the performance with dancing is called Igeib while the 27.
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... Heitsi - eibib , " in the Cape Monthly Magazine ( May , 1878 ) , and Friedr . Müller , Allgemeine Ethnographie " ( Wien , 1879 ) , pp . 78 and 93 , & c . 3 Cattle , sheep , and goats . All the records of the Dutch and English and ...
... Heitsi - eibib , " in the Cape Monthly Magazine ( May , 1878 ) , and Friedr . Müller , Allgemeine Ethnographie " ( Wien , 1879 ) , pp . 78 and 93 , & c . 3 Cattle , sheep , and goats . All the records of the Dutch and English and ...
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