Ngwaketse
Sotho Tswana · mortal · legendary genealogical · Recorded classification
Eponymous founder of the Bangwaketse, settled at Kanye; an offshoot of the Bakwena retaining the crocodile (kwena) totem. Authored as a legendary mortal tribal-founder ancestor (Oghuz-sons pattern), son of Malope and brother of Mohurutshe, Kwena, Kgatla and Ngwato. 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 Bangwaketse lineage
Relations
- sibling: MohurutsheBrother and fellow founder-son of Malope (eponym of the Bahurutshe).Schapera, I. (1952). The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes. London: LSE / Athlone Press. (reference)
- sibling: KwenaBrother and fellow founder-son of Malope; the Bangwaketse are an offshoot of Kwena's Bakwena (sharing the crocodile totem).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)
Sources
- Ngwaketse is the eponymous founding ancestor of the Bangwaketse, a son of Malope and an offshoot of the Bakwena, settled at Kanye, retaining the crocodile totem of their common Bakwena origin.: 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)