Porcupine, Adopted Daughter of the Mantis
San · demigod · First Times / the Early Race · Recorded classification
Classed as demigod (a First-Race being in the Mantis's family). Click symbol ǃ = alveolar (postalveolar) click. ASCII Bleek–Lloyd form '!Xo'. Female.
Parentage
- parent: Mantis Trickster-Creator
Children
Domains
- the household of the mantis
Powers
- joins the rainbow-people to the Mantis through her marriage
Relations
- sibling: Son of the MantisFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Mantis Trickster-Creator) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- spouse: Rainbow Being, Son-in-Law of the MantisReciprocal of san_kwammanga.spouse — In the /Xam corpus the Porcupine, the Mantis's adopted daughter, is the wife of /Kwammang-a; their son is the Ichneumon.Bleek, The Mantis and His Friends: Bushman Folklore (1923) (primary)
Sources
- ǃXo, the Porcupine, is the adopted daughter of ǀKaggen the Mantis and wife of ǀKwammang-a the rainbow; their sons are the Ichneumon (mongoose) and a younger Kwammang-a.: Bleek, W.H.I. & Lloyd, L.C., 'Specimens of Bushman Folklore' (1911) (primary); Bleek, D.F., 'The Mantis and His Friends: Bushman Folklore' (1923) (secondary)