The Religious System of the Amazulu: Izinyanga Zokubula; Or, Divination, as Existing Among the Amazulu, in Their Own WordsJ. A. Blair, 1884 - 448 sider |
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abamnyama abantu abantu ba Amadhlozi Amatongo Amazulu asked assagai aziyo ba nga bona bone bulala bullock buza cattle chief dhla dhle disease diviner doctor dream ekaya endhlini enza enze ezwa father fika fike futi gula hamba hambe heaven hlala idhlozi imilozi impi indaba inkomo inkosi inyanga isikati Itongo izinkomo izinto izinyanga izulu kakulu kanti Kepa killed Kodwa kona konke kqala ku tiwa kuba kubantu kufa kukqala kulo kuluma kumina kwa ba kwake lapa lapo leyo li ya loko loku lowo muntu luto masinyane medicines natives naye nayo Nembala ngaloko ngi nga ngoku ngokuba ngokuti njalo nkulu noma omunye pakati pezulu puma snake So-and-so spirits tanda tell things tina tshaya tshela tshiwo tsho tsho ukuti Ubani ukuba ukufa ukuti ukuze umuntu umuti Unkulunkulu Uthlanga Utikxo vela village yena yona zala zonke
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Side 261 - It is apparent also from his being very fond of snuff; not allowing any long time to pass without taking some. And people begin to see that he has had what is good given to him. After that he is ill; he has convulsions, and when water has been poured on him they then cease for a time.
Side 66 - In the country there are occasionally found large heaps of stones on which had been thrown a few bushes ; and if the Namaquas are asked what they are, they say that Heije Eibib, their Great Father, is below the heap ; they do not know what he is like, or what he does ; they only imagine that he also came from the East, and had plenty of sheep and goats ; and when they add a stone or branch to the heap, they mutter,
Side 43 - Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset: natus homo est, sive hunc divino semine fecit ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo, sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto aethere cognati retinebat semina caeli; quam satus lapeto mixtam pluvialibus undis finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum, pronaque cum spectent animalia cetera terram, os homini sublime dedit caelumque videre iussit et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.
Side 82 - Zwartkops river and into the ocean ; ' and then,' said the prophet, ' we will sit down and eat honey !' Ignorant of our vast resources, Makanna probably conceived that, this once effected, the contest was over for ever with the usurping Europeans.
Side 72 - The name of Unkulunkulu has no respect paid to it among black men; for his house no longer exists. It is now like the name of a very old crone, which has no power to do even a little thing for herself, but sits continually where she sat in the morning till the sun sets. And the children make sport of her, for she cannot catch them and flog them, but only talk with her mouth. Just so is the name of Unkulunkulu when all the children are told to go and call him. He is now a means of making sport of...
Side 4 - ... hare. Maui was an abortion ; he was born as his mother was passing along by the sea-shore. She cut off the long tresses of her hair, and bound him up in them, and threw him into the foam of the sea, and after that he was found by his ancestor Tama-nui-ki-te-Rangi, and by his care developed into a man. As yet there was no death. But Maui's father, " from mistake, hurriedly skipped over part of the prayers of the baptismal service, and of the services to purify Maui ; he knew that the gods would...
Side 91 - All we know is this, the young and the old die, and the shade departs, The Unkulunkulu of us black men is that one to whom we pray for our cattle, and worship, saying, ' Father ! ' We say, • Udhlamini ? Uhhadebe 1 Umutimkulu ! Uthlomo ! Let me obtain what I wish, Lord t Let me not die, but live, and walk long on the earth.
Side 53 - When we asked continually, Where is the Creator ? for our chiefs we see, the old men denied, saying: And those chiefs, too, whom we see, they were created by the Creator. And when we asked, Where is He ? for He is not visible at all ; where is He then ? we heard our fathers pointing towards heaven and saying, The Creator of all things is in heaven. And there is a nation of people there too.
Side 257 - The condition of a man who is about to become a diviner is this; at first he is apparently robust, but in the process of time he begins to be delicate, not having any real disease, but being delicate.
Side 50 - Morimo, as well as man, with all the different species of animals, came out of a hole or cave in the Bakone country, to the north, where, say they, their footmarks are still to be seen in the indurated rock, which was at that time sand.