Resurrecting Hunter-Hero

Classed as demigod / culture-hero. Son of the high god Tsui-ǁGoab (parentIds). vitalStatus='other' because his defining trait is recurrent death-and-resurrection (neither simply 'dead' nor 'immortal'). The Damara name is Haiseb. Cited scholars: Theophilus Hahn (1881), W.H.I. Bleek (1864), Leonhard Schultze (1907), Sigrid Schmidt (2014).

Parentage

• Wounded-Knee Sky-Father

Domains

• the hunt
• magic and trickery
• death and rebirth

Powers

• dies repeatedly and is born again, leaving many graves
• tricks and casts the man-eater Ga-gorib into his own pit
• is conceived through a cow that eats magical grass

Sources

• Hahn, T., 'Tsuni-ǁGoam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-khoi' (1881)
• Bleek, W.H.I., 'Reynard the Fox in South Africa; or, Hottentot Fables and Tales' (1864)
• Schmidt, S., 'Some Notes on the so-called Heitsi-Eibeb Graves in Namibia' (2014)