Mohurutshe
Sotho Tswana · mortal · legendary genealogical · Recorded classification
Eponymous founder of the Bahurutshe, conventionally the senior Tswana merafe; totem the baboon (tshwene). Authored as a legendary mortal tribal-founder ancestor (Oghuz-sons pattern), son of Malope and brother of Kwena, Kgatla, Ngwato and Ngwaketse. NOTE ON A VARIANT: a widely recorded tradition makes Mohurutshe a daughter and senior house, with Kwena the senior son; the corpus follows Malope's own registry entry, which lists Mohurutshe among the five founder-sons, and so registers the figure here with sex male while disclosing the daughter-variant. No mother is registered in the corpus, so only the father edge is wired.
Parentage
- father: Malope
Domains
- founding ancestry
- clan totem
Powers
- founds and propagates the Bahurutshe lineage
Epithets
- BatshwenengSchapera, I. (1952). The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes. London: LSE / Athlone Press. (reference)
Relations
- sibling: KwenaBrother and fellow founder-son of Malope (eponym of the Bakwena).Schapera, I. (1952). The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes. London: LSE / Athlone Press. (reference)
- sibling: KgatlaBrother and fellow founder-son of Malope (eponym of the Bakgatla).Schapera, I. (1952). The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes. London: LSE / Athlone Press. (reference)
- sibling: NgwatoBrother and fellow founder-son of Malope (eponym of the Bangwato).Schapera, I. (1952). The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes. London: LSE / Athlone Press. (reference)
- sibling: NgwaketseBrother and fellow founder-son of Malope (eponym of the Bangwaketse).Schapera, I. (1952). The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes. London: LSE / Athlone Press. (reference)
Sources
- Mohurutshe is an eponymous founding ancestor, a son of Malope, from whom the Bahurutshe (the senior Tswana tribe, baboon totem) descend.: Schapera, I. (1952). The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes. London: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology 11, Athlone Press. (reference); Ngcongco, L. (1982). 'Origins of the Tswana', Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, 2(1). (reference)