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

• 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 serve

Relations

• sibling: Gatutsi
• sibling: Gatwa

Sources

• 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).
• Jan Vansina, Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
• A. C. Werner, Myths and Legends of the Bantu (London: Harrap, 1933), ch. VIII; Origins of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa (Rwandan oral tradition).