the Dassie
San · deity · First Times / the Early Race · deity
San First-Race being, the wife of the trickster-creator Mantis (sami /Kaggen, here san_kaggen), in the form of the Cape hyrax (dassie, rock-rabbit) and called the mother of the bees. Named in the registry as the Dassie, the Mantis wife, who in the Bleek-Lloyd /Xam corpus heads the Mantis household together with the adopted Porcupine (san_kxo). Click symbols are rendered in ASCII.
Domains
- the dassie hyrax
Epithets
- !kauruwo
Relations
- spouse: Mantis Trickster-Creator
Sources
- Bleek, W.H.I. and Lloyd, L.C., Specimens of Bushman Folklore (1911); Bleek, D.F., The Mantis and His Friends (1923)
- Bleek-Lloyd /Xam corpus: the wife of the Mantis is the Dassie (Cape hyrax)