Kanyarwanda
Banyaruanda · quartigod · heroic age · Recorded classification
Kanyarwanda (throne-name Gahima), son of Gihanga and his named successor, the personified eponym of Rwanda. Named explicitly in the batch prose of banyaruanda_gihanga ('succeeded by his son Kanyarwanda I Gahima, the eponym of Rwanda'). The eponymous group-ancestors Gatutsi, Gahutu and Gatwa attributed to him (and parallel to the Kazikamuntu account) are not authored here. Demigod as a divinely-descended founder-line king.
Parentage
- father: GihangaSon of the founder-king Gihanga; the reverse father-of edge on banyaruanda_gihanga is needed.Kagame, Inganji Karinga; Vansina (2004) — Gihanga succeeded by his son Kanyarwanda I Gahima. (secondary)
Children
Domains
- kingship and succession
- national eponym
Powers
- personify and name the kingdom of Rwanda
Relations
- father: GihangaSon of the founder-king Gihanga; the reverse father-of edge on banyaruanda_gihanga is needed.Kagame, Inganji Karinga; Vansina (2004) — Gihanga succeeded by his son Kanyarwanda I Gahima. (secondary)
Sources
- Kanyarwanda I Gahima, son and successor of the founder-king Gihanga, is the dynastic eponym of Rwanda and its people; in tradition he (or the parallel ancestor) fathered the founding ancestors of the Tutsi, Hutu and Twa.: Alexis Kagame, Inganji Karinga. (secondary); Jan Vansina, Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom (2004). (secondary); Folklore in Rwanda; Jacques J. Maquet, The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda (1961). (secondary)