the Ichneumon

San First-Race being, the Ichneumon (mongoose), son of the rainbow-being /Kwammang-a (san_kwammanga) and the Porcupine (san_kxo), and grandson of the trickster-creator Mantis /Kaggen. In the Bleek-Lloyd /Xam narratives he is the bossy, clever young one who is forever putting his grandfather the Mantis in his place. Click symbols rendered in ASCII.

Parentage

• Rainbow Being, Son-in-Law of the Mantis
• Porcupine, Adopted Daughter of the Mantis

Domains

• the mongoose

Powers

• outwits and corrects his grandfather the Mantis

Relations

• sibling: the younger Kwammang-a

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 Porcupine and Kwammang-a have two sons, the younger Kwammang-a and the Mongoose (Ichneumon); the Ichneumon is the Mantis grandson