Senkatana
Sotho Tswana · demigod · mythic past · Recorded classification
Basotho culture-hero / deliverer of the Kgodumodumo legend, transmitted orally for centuries and dramatised by S. M. Mofokeng (1952). Sometimes called Litaolane in cognate versions. Classified demigod (culture-hero tier); explicitly not a divine type beyond the schema's allowance.
Domains
- deliverance
Powers
- slay the all-swallowing monster
- slay the all-swallowing monster Kgodumodumo
Sources
- Senkatana, born to the sole woman not swallowed by the monster Kgodumodumo, grows up and kills the monster, freeing all the people and animals; made king, he is later murdered through a private grudge.: Mofokeng, S. M. (1952). Senkatana. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. (reference); Mofokeng, S. M.; Lenake, J. M. (ed., 2019). Senkatana. Oxford University Press / Wits University Press. (reference)