Wounded-Knee Sky-Father

Classed as deity. Click symbol ǁ = lateral click; ASCII 'Tsui-//Goab'. Theophilus Hahn (1881) is the foundational source; Hahn argued he was a deified ancestral chief of the dawn.

Children

• Resurrecting Hunter-Hero
• Star Daughters of the Sky God

Domains

• sky and dawn
• rain and thunder
• health and protection

Powers

• sends rain and thunder when his people pray to him
• dies and rises again, returning with the dawn
• wars against and drives off ǁGaunab the lord of darkness

Epithets

• Tsui-ǁGoab
• Tsui-||Goab

Relations

• enemy: Lord of Darkness and Death

Sources

• Hahn, T., 'Tsuni-ǁGoam: The Supreme Being of the Khoi-khoi' (London, 1881)
• Schapera, I., 'The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa: Bushmen and Hottentots' (1930)