Gahutu
Gahutu, eponymous ancestor of the Hutu and the son who failed the vigil by sleeping and was set to serve his brother. Authored as a son (parentId) of banyaruanda_kanyarwanda and sibling of banyaruanda_gatutsi and banyaruanda_gatwa (reciprocated in-batch). VARIANT: a parallel tradition makes the three the sons of the first man Kazikamuntu (banyaruanda_kazikamuntu) instead of Kanyarwanda (still others name Gihanga or the celestial Kigwa); documented here but only the cluster parent Kanyarwanda is wired in parentIds. Type = mortal: an eponymous TRIBAL FOUNDER (authored mortal by rule), descent otherwise computing to scion (quartigod father 0.25 + mortal unregistered mother 0, /2 = 0.125) with a parallel strand of mortal descent from Kazikamuntu — lower tier chosen. era heroic-age = the cluster era.
Parentage
- father: Kanyarwanda
Domains
- ancestral eponym
- cultivation and service
Powers
- Founds and gives his name to the Hutu
- Fails the night vigil by falling asleep
Epithets
- the brother set to serveOrigins of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa (Rwandan oral tradition, after Maquet 1961). (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: GatutsiBrother and fellow son of Kanyarwanda; Gahutu was set to serve the chosen chief Gatutsi.Jacques J. Maquet, The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda (1961). (secondary)
- sibling: GatwaBrother and fellow son of Kanyarwanda; in the Kazikamuntu variant Gatwa is cursed for killing one of his brothers.Jacques J. Maquet, The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda (1961). (secondary)
Sources
- Gahutu, son of the eponym Kanyarwanda Gahima (variantly of Gihanga, Kazikamuntu or Kigwa), is the eponymous ancestor of the Hutu; in the origin tale he fails the night vigil by falling asleep (letting his milk spill) and is therefore made the servant of his brother Gatutsi.: Jacques J. Maquet, The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda: A Study of Political Relations in a Central African Kingdom (Oxford Univ. Press / International African Institute, 1961). (secondary); Jan Vansina, Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2004). (secondary); A. C. Werner, Myths and Legends of the Bantu (London: Harrap, 1933), ch. VIII; Origins of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa (Rwandan oral tradition). (secondary)