Gatutsi
Gatutsi, eponymous ancestor of the Tutsi and the son chosen as chief in the allotment of destinies. Authored as a son (parentId) of banyaruanda_kanyarwanda and sibling of banyaruanda_gahutu 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); this is documented here but only the cluster parent Kanyarwanda is wired in parentIds to avoid asserting competing directed edges. Type = mortal: an eponymous TRIBAL FOUNDER (authored mortal by rule), with descent that otherwise computes to scion (quartigod father 0.25 + mortal unregistered mother 0, /2 = 0.125) and a parallel strand of mortal descent from Kazikamuntu — lower tier chosen. era heroic-age = the cluster era.
Parentage
- father: Kanyarwanda
Domains
- ancestral eponym
- chiefship and cattle
Powers
- Keeps faithful vigil over the entrusted milk
- Founds and gives his name to the Tutsi
Epithets
- the sober and clever sonOrigins of Hutu, Tutsi and Twa (Rwandan oral tradition, after Maquet 1961). (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: GahutuBrother and fellow son of Kanyarwanda; Gahutu was set to serve Gatutsi in the allotment.Jacques J. Maquet, The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda (1961). (secondary)
- sibling: GatwaBrother and fellow son of Kanyarwanda; Gatwa was consigned to the margins (and in the Kazikamuntu variant cursed for killing a brother).Jacques J. Maquet, The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda (1961). (secondary)
Sources
- Gatutsi, son of the eponym Kanyarwanda Gahima (variantly of Gihanga, Kazikamuntu or Kigwa), is the eponymous ancestor of the Tutsi; in the origin tale he alone keeps vigil over his entrusted milk and is therefore made chief and lord of cattle.: 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)