Guest guest Posted October 26, 2007 Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 Most interesting. Thank you, Marty Blessings Bernie ----- Original Message ----- From: " Marty Cline " <stompingelk@...> <Spiritual-Insights > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:24 PM Subject: [ ] only for shamans who wear antelope antlers | Ka -- by Franz Gnaedinger | | 1) My thesis: KA was the Middle Stone Age word of the | Blombos Cave people who dwelled in South Africa in the | Middle Stone Age, some 75,000 years ago. Ka was the | world | above, behind and inside the world, life behind life, | the | beyond, the sky, the invisible, what is above us, or | inside | the rock, beneath the ground, or deeply inside | ourselves, | not diretly accessible to our eyes, realm of the Great | Spirit who made the sun wake up all beings and | inspires | people to make all kinds inventions. So there are two | worlds: the one of our daily life and our senses, and | a | spiritual world, accessible by ways of reasoning, | asking, | combining our experiences, pondering life, studying | nature, | performing rituals, praying, invoking the help of a | shaman. | | The hypothetical calendar of the Blombos Cave, South | Africa, Middle Stone Age, 75,000 BP, would be an | example of | Ka: one may just live from day to day and take what | comes, | or one may observe nature, count days by laying out | patterns of shell beads, or by lining them up on | threads, | notice regularities, plan the year ahead, and thus | participate in Ka, realm of the Great Spirit ... | | The Middle Stone Age culture of the Blombos Cave | people | came to a premature halt, presumably due to a | precipitous | temperature drop. May it be that the Blombos people on | the | soutern shore of Africa wandered along the eastern | shore to | warmer regions? | | According to a new study, a small group of some 200 | people, | or perhaps only some 70 people, left Africa some | 65,000 | years ago for the shores of Arabia and India. May | these | have been descendants of the Blombos people? Australia | was | populated from around 60,000 BP on. The hypothetical | Ka-word may have survived in languages of the | Aboriginals. | | Let me recommend the following books: Pintupi/Luritja | Dictionary, 3rd edition, by KC & LE Hansen, Institute | for | Aboriginal Development, Alice Springs 1974/77/92; | Archaeology and Linguistics, Aboriginal Australia in | Global | Perspective, edited by McConvell and | , Oxford University Press 1997. | | Now let me look out for Ka-words in Pintupi/Luritja: | | KA - but, on the other hand; basic element of | reasoning: it | may appear like thatthis, but consier also that aspect | ... | | KATJA, KAMURU, KATJANGALI, KALYATU, KALYATURRA, KAAKA, | KALYAKALYA, KALYAKALYARARRA, KAMI, KANTAMARRI, | KANTIYA; | KANGKURU, KAPALI, KARIPATU - relationship terms; | Ka-words | are the largest group among the terms of kinship. They | are | also frequent in other aboriginal languages (see the | essay | Kinship Terms by PAtrick McConvell, op.cit.) | | KARU (Murrinpatha language from northern Australia) - | aboriginal people and human classification, including | human | spirits (see Nominal Classification in Aboriginal | Australia, Edited by Mark Harvey and Reid, | | s B.V. 1997) | | Ka, in the hypothetical philosophy of South Africa in | the | Middle Stone Age, would also have been a spark of the | Great | Spirit living in the humans. Those acquainted with | Ancient | Egypt will recognize that idea: the ka-soul in human | shape | represented vitality. | | 2) The following selection of Pintupi/Luritja ka-words | >from Central Australia may reveal further properties | of the | hypothetical KA in South Africa in the Middle Stone | Age. | | KALYU, KAPI - water, rain, springs, rockholes or | rainpools | | KARRKU - ocher, red in color / KANTAWARRA - yellow | ocher, | yellow, used to describe any object that is yellow in | color | | KATA - head, leader, round, spherical, head hair, | person | with highest authority | | KATA WITTU - confident, strong, without fear; | literally: | made head hard/tight | | KATUTIYA - God; literally: pertaining to the above | | KATU - above / KANKARRA - above, up | | KATAKUTU - upright / KATANU - uplifted | | KAYILI - north / KAKARRU - east | | KARRIMUNU - very large | | KANA, KANARU - alive, awake, conscious | | KAMINA - female / KAPALINYTJAMIRRI - female ancestors | | KAWALI - secret | | KAWALYA, KALYPA - reconciled | | KAWAKU - together / KAWAKURRINGU - come together, | congregated | | KALA - task completed | | KATAPITI, KAMITIJI - juice of berry fruits, fruit: | sweet | and juicy | | KAMPURARRPA, KANYTJILYI, KATARAPALPA - edible berry, | fruits | during November and December, used metaphorically to | describe a good person i.e. one obedient to God | | KANTANTI - shrub type, white secretion, use of the | white | secretion of the shrub, found in sandhill country | | KALUTU, KANTURANGU - desert poplar | | KANYALA - rock kangaroo type, only inhabits the hills | | KANANU - clearing, specially prepared place which is | cleared of grass etc. for camping or ceremonies | | KANANTJIPUNGU - style of body rolling dancing at | ceremonies | | KANGURRPUNGU - ceremonial action done usually by a | group of | men when conducting women to the initial part of the | initiation ceremony | | KANGKINYTJI - affectionate, to have affection for | others, | especially children | | 3) In my previous list of Pintupi/Luritja words from | Central Australia I mentioned neutral or positive | examples | of Ka-words that may testify to properties of KA in | the | hypothetical philosophy of the Blombos people in South | Africa in the Middle Stone Age. There are also | negative | Ka-words, either indicating problematic aspects of the | spiritual world, or problems occurring when the | spiritual | powers are abused. It may also be that the world | wherein we | live and the spiritual world should be separated and | only | joined by experienced people, while other people might | get | in danger. An indication for this may be seen in the | following Pintupi/Laritja word that contains a double | ka in | doubled form, hence four Ka's: | | KAKALKAKALPA - vague, delirious; used of a staggering, | sick | person | | KAKALKAKALARRINGU - become delirious, vague, | disoriented | | In the case of a sick person near death the strong | presence | of ka in doubled and quadrupled form may indicate that | this | person will soon become part of the spiritual world, | and | the passage from this to the other world is troubling. | Also | those who mess with the spiritual powers during their | life | may get into troubles. | | Another group of ka-words I left out concern tools and | weapons, mostly sticks and spears. Many words | designating | tools and sticks and boomerangs are KA--- words, all | over | Australia, as far as I can tell from the books I | mentioned. | This may indicate that we humans who are living in the | AK | world are getting inspired by the Great Spirit of the | KA | world ... | | 4) Let me recommend a further book: Australia's Living | Heritage, Arts of the Dreaming, by Isaacs, | Landsdowne 1984/92, with beautiful photographs by Reg | on and others. A quote from page 143, concerning | rock | engravings that belong to the oldest art in Australia: | " Very little information about the meaning of these | engravings has been gleaned from Aboriginals. However, | in | the 1840s, an elderly woman named Gooseberry, a wife | of | Bungaree of Broken Bay, spoke of the engravings. She | said | they were done 'a long time ago' by the karajis, the | clever | men with knowledge of magic, and that only these and | initiated men could go to the sites. " (Ka-word | karajis) | | On the double page 138/9 is shown a pecked rock | engraving | of two figures wearing rayed head dresses from N'Dhala | Gorge, Central Australia, Northern Territory. The | right | figure, probably female, has 14 long rays going out | from | her round head, while the left figure, obviously male, | has | no head but 14 long rays going out from his neck. This | pair | may well represent ancestral heroes, while their rays | may | be read as a calendar: a long week or double week of | 14 | days; add 12 and 14 and you obtain 26; a solar year | has 26 | long or double weeks of 14 days; add the circle of the | female head for New Year, thus you obtain a year of | 365 | days N'Dhala | | In the book People of the Stone Age, Weldon Owen 2000, | I | found a Kalkadoon figure from south of the Selwyn | Ranges, | Central Australia, showing a male, painted with red | ocher | and surrounded with a rim of yellow ocher, on his head | a | tall feather or tree, showing 14 red branches, in | between | 13 yellow ones. 14 would be the number of days of a | long or | double week, while 13 long weeks yield half a year. | | Headdresses might have been references to the | spiritual | world Ka, some of them indicating calendars. | | In the same book I find a hand painted on a wall, | western | Arnhem Land, Kakadu National Park. The fingers are | given as | feathers, while 2 3 3 plus 3 3 dots mark the wrist and | back | of the hand. All in all 14 dots, corresponding to the | days | of a long or double week. Add the dots in groups of 3 | dots | each and you obtain 26, the number of long weeks of a | year. | | More on the above rock engraving and paintings in | later | chapters, when explain the Crowned Crane as Ka-bird of | the | Blombos people, emanation of the Great Spirit, whose | flapping brought the world into being and may be | symbolized | in the engravings on the ocher pieces from a Middle | Stone | Age level of the Blombos Cave, and when I explain the | cockatoos as Ka-birds of the early Australians. | | 5) The book Archaeology and Linguistics, Aboriginal | Australia in Global Perspective, edited by | McConvell and , Oxford University Press | 1997, | contains a contribution by Ruth Gruhn: The Peopling of | the | Americas. A quote from page 102: " A viable alternative | to | the Clovis first model is the coastal entry model, | first | proposed by Knut Fladmark (...) Fladmark proposed that | the | optimum route of entry into North America, in terms of | abundance and ready availability of food resources, | was the | North Pacific coast. He argued that people with simple | watercraft could have traversed the coast even at the | height of the last glaciation, by following a chain of | biotic refugia on the outer coast. " Ruth Gruhn, | contrary to | Fladmark, places the event about 50,000 to 60,000 | years | ago, when the climate and vegetation were similar to | the | present, and when a simple technology would have | sufficed | for successful adaptation to the rich marine and | litoral | resources of the north Pacific coast. | | If so, the descendants of the Blombos people who left | Africa 65,000 years ago for Arabia, India, Asia, | Australia | and Europe, would also have reached the Americas, and | would | have brought their language with them, and if the word | KA | was of such a paramount importance as I believe, we | should | find it not only in Australian but also in American | languages. | | Consulting Fester's book on the Ice Age I find | many | examples among red Indian languages, for example these | (NA | North America, MA Middle America, SA South America): | | Caanuk (MA) think / kaanda (MA) dream / kallu (SA) | sly, | cunning, crafty / chaal (MA) mouth / kallu (SA) laugh | (?) / | kain (MA) hymn (?) / kal (MA) neck, throat / callpa | (SA) | vital energy / kallachi, kali hailli, kankana (SA) | healthy | (?) / kallana (SA) stand up / cala (MA) unhurt (?) / | ka | (MA) woman (?) / kan can (MA) like (?) / chala (SA) | luck / | kailla (SA) be close / kallu (SA) man, human / calal | (MA) | leader / kal (MA) house / calolan (MA) khalti (SA) | light / | kan kaan, kahan (MA) kallal alai, chancha akah (SA) | shine / | khanaki (SA) clear / caul (SA) gods / karok (MA) cult | of | the dead / calocan (MA) beyond / canca (SA) ritual | food / | cantu (SA) sacred tree / chantiko (MA) fire goddess / | kayna | (MA) God / chalchiutlicue (MA) water goddess / | katchina | (SA) - figurines | | Many or most ka/ca/cha-words mentioned by | Fester | fit in the hypothetical Blombos philosophy as | explained in | the previous messages. The list may even be better | when | corrected. As far as I know, the kachina are from | North | America, and not just cult figurines but deified Hopi | ancestors. | | 6) Amazingly, there are still many ka-words holding a | religious meaning: ka ka'ba kabala kachina qadar | Kaddish | Kalam Kali calix Kama Kamadhenu cantata cantor | capitulor | Kapelle (chapel) Karaite cardinal karma cathedra | cathedral | katholikos catholic catechesis (for comparison: Lakshi | lama | Lamaism - only three la-words). | | The ka-soul of ancient Egypt was of human shape and | returned the the Other World when someone died; ka was | the | principle of vitality, also present in food, and of | creativity. Ka'ba: pre-Islamic and Islamic House of | God. | Kabala or cabala comes from Hebrew qaballah for | tradition, | lit. something received, i.e. handed down; if qa means | down, it has the same meaning as ancient Greek kata, | which | is present in catholic from kata holou, according to | the | whole, in katechesis, literally din down, in cathedra | and | cathedral from sit down, always implying that God in | one | form or another comes down from heaven in order to | teach | us. Qadar: fate in Islam. Kachina: ancestral spirits | deified by the Hopi Indians. | | Ca is present in Latin caelum, later coelum for sky, | heaven. Calendar comes from Latin calendae, first day | of a | tributary month, which I derive from Magdalenian CA | for | sky. Catalog may also have a religious root, from | Magdaleniann CA-DAG-LOG, sky-four-saying, four | heavenly | sayings as derived from the curious composite animal | near | the entrance of Lascaux Cave: an aspiring leader of a | Magdalenian tribe must be strong as a bull, decided as | a | feline, caring as a pregnant mare (or a mare caring | for her | fowl), and make wise use of his weapons (which is why | the | lances grow as horns out of the head of the composite | animal with the bearded face of a man). Ca would also | be | present in the hypothetical Magdalenian form of | Lascaux as | LAD-CA-UR, hill-sky-color/ colour, hill of the painted | sky | within - the horse representing the sun, the bull | representing the moon (Marie E.P. Koenig). | | 7) The hypothetical Middle Stone Age word and | philosophical concept of KA was of such an importance | as I | believe, ka-words should also have survived in other | languages, for example in the Ainu language. I found | this | book: Trends in Linguistics, Documentation 15, The | Collected Works of Bronislaw Pilsudski, 3 volumes on | the | Ainu Language, edited by Alfred F. Majewicz, Mouton de | Gruyter 1998. Volume 2 contains a dictionary, and much | to | my pleasure I found similar Ka-words as in | Pintupi/Laritja | and other aboriginal Australian languages: | | KAMUI, KAMUJ - 1. god, goddess, spirit, deity; 2. | devil, | evil; 3. divine; 4. being, creature; 5. beast, animal, | esp. | seal; 6. very big, great, good, nice, beautiful; 7. | body, | dead body; 8. talisman / IBENE KAMUI - food (remember | Egyptian ka in food) / KAMUI-UN - divine / KAMUI-UN | KOTAN - | Underworld / KANTO, KANDO - heaven, sky / KACO | (shaman's) | drum | | KASKE, KASKEHE, KASKENE, KASKETE, KASKEVA, KATA, KASI | - | upon, on top of / KASURE - surpass, be superior, | stronger | | KARA - 1. do, make; 2. act, accomplish; 3. build; 4. | verbalizer | | KAS - help / KAMESU - help, save / KAMPA - carry | | KATU - figure, shape, appearannce, likeness / KATUN | RUHE, | KATUNTUHU - appearace, manner, way of (doing) | | KA - thread, string, cord / KAXTA - strike light from | a | flint / KAPU, KATU - skin, bark / SIRI KAPU - form, | appearance / KAURI - twig, stick / KAJE, KAJTE - break | / | KAMANATA - long knive / UM KANZI - rudder / KAMU - | cover / | KAJA - fish-skin dress | | KAJKI - (emphatic particle) as far, as far as ... is | concerned, indeed, even, thus, however, although, | nevertheless | | 8) It happened what often happens when I go for a new | piece of work: I fell in love with Australia and the | Aboriginals, Easy with the fine book Australia's | Living | Heritage, Arts of the Dreaming by Isaacs, | Lansdowne 1984/92, with marvelous photographs by Reg | on and others. | | Illustrations and explanations in this book led me to | the | assumption that the cockatoo might have been | Australia's | Ka-bird. Which bird, then, could have been the Ka-bird | of | the Blombos people? There is only one possibility: the | beautiful Gray Crowned Crane, Balearica regulorum. Let | me | invent or re-invent a creation myth around this bird. | | In the beginning there was nothing but empty space. | Then | the Ka-bird came a flapping, thus creating sky, sun | moon | and stars, earth, rain lakes and sea, plants, animals, | and | human beings. How did the Ka-bird create the sky? by |means | of the blue * feathers of the neck. How did the | Ka-bird | create sun, moon and stars? by means of the yellow | crown. | How did the Ka-bird create day and night? by means of | the | white and black feathers of the face and wings. How | did the | Ka-bird create Earth? by means of the brown feathers | of the | body. How did the Ka-bird create plants? by means of | the | feathers that resemble plants with a stem and | branches. How | did the Ka-bird create water? by its love for water | places. | How did the Ka-bird create blood? by means of the red | wattles and gular sac. How did the Ka-bird create | animals? | by being an animal itself. How did the Ka-bird create | human | beings? by means of its elaborate and attractive | courtship | dance - don't human beings love to dance? How did the | Ka-bird create time? by flapping the wings, which is | why | the Blombos calendar symbolized wings in motion, and | if | such a pattern was engraved on a piece of red ocher, | it | meant a new life, a new body, fresh blood, and another | lifetime for a worthy deceased in the Other World | named KA. | | * actually, the neck of the bird is gray, but | appearing | blueish on my photographs, and on a picture I found on | the | web, the feathers at the low end of the neck are of a | deep | blue | | 9) I got my information on the Crowned Crane, | Balearica | pavonina regulorum, from the book: Birdlife in | Southern | Africa, edited by Newman, Rufus and Joubert | Johannesburg 1971/79. On the website www.ecotravel. | co.za I | found information on the Gray Crowned Crane, Balearica | regulorum, by Janis O. Grady: " The Grey-Crowned Crane | is | globally restricted to Africa (...) Within South | Africa, | this ancient crane has been sighted in the moist, | higher | rainfall regions of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal | and the | North-eastern Free State, as well as the Eastern | regions of | Mpumalanga. They require a mixture of wetlands and | grasslands for summer breeding and foraging (...) | Unlike | other crane species, this crane roosts in trees - its | voice | has considerable harmonic development and can be heard | for | miles - cranes use many different calls to communicate | and | can be very boisterous upon returning to the roost | (Cooley | 1993). Non-migratory, they do move around locally and | in | the winter months, large flocks of non-breeding | Grey-Crowned Cranes can be found dancing and calling | before | the summer breeding period. (...) Grey-Crowned Cranes | (...) | usually lay 2 - 3 large smooth eggs in a wetland nest | surrounded by tall reeds (...) These spring and summer | breeders incubate their eggs for about 30 days (...) | Chicks | (...) leave their parents when almost a year old (...) | The | Grey-Crowned Crane now has a price on its head South | and | Southern Africa due to its extreme beauty and sacred | status | in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and Uganda in | Southern | Africa (where it is the national bird). [grammar seems | a | little messed up to me, FG] (...) With only some 4 000 | Grey-Crowned Cranes left in South Africa today, | conservationists are increasing their efforts to | under- | stand the bird better, both biologically and | geographically. " | | Will it help when I say that the Gray Crowned Crane | was the | hypothetical Ka-bird and emanation of the Creator | Spirit of | the Blombos people in the Middle Stone Age? | | [i prefer Gray Crowned Crane to Grey-Crowned Crane, | which, | to me, suggests a gray crown, while it is yellow / | golden.] | | Especially interesting are the about 30 days of | incubating | the eggs, which correspond to a lunar year or | lunation, and | the year the young ones spend with their parents - a | solar | year. As the Gray Crowned Crane breeds in spring and | summer, New Year might well have been in summer. | | 10) In the book Birdlife in Southern Africa (op.cit.) | the | Crowned Crane is given as Balearica pavonica | regulorum, | while on an ornithological website I read that the | pavonina | is from Westafrica, but sometimes lumped together with | the | South African Gray Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum. | | The Gray Crowned Crane is a non-migratory bird. Its | dance | is more than just a mating dance but has wider social | functions much as human dance. Watussi girls, I read, | imitate the crane's dance, and lovely so. The main | call of | the Gray Crowned Crane is grao-auu, possible origin of | 'my' | hypothetical KA. | | The Blombos culture came to a premature end, | presumably due | to a precipitous temperature drop. May it be that the | Ka-bird, the Gray Crowned Crane, left South Africa for | a | northern part of the continent, and was followed by | the | Blombos people? When their hypothetical descendants | left | Africa 65,000 years ago, and reached Australia some | 60,000 | years ago, they would have had to look out for another | Ka-bird, which, I believe, was to became Australia's | cockatoos. | | In the zoological museum of Zurich are kept a big | black and | a small white cockatoo. The black bird, | Calyptorhynchus | magnificus, has silver arcs on the breast, and stripes | the | hue of red ocher on its tail feathers. In | Iasaacs's book (op.cit.) I find a photograph of a | " Tiwi | black and red feather headdress made from black | cockatoo | tail feathers. These are fastened to the hair as part | of | the pukumani ceremonies. " The pukumani ceremonies are | mortuary rituals. The black feathers may represent | death, | while the red ocher hue may represent a new life in | the | Other World ... Now for the white cockatoo in the | zoologial | museum of Zurich, cacatu leadbeateri, white rose | feathers | on the breast and crest, which remind me of the | ancient | Greek goddess Eos, or Latin Aurora, blush of the | morning. | So this bird may represent day and life. Kakadu is the | Portuguese spelling of the bird's name, hence Kakadu | National Park (Arnhem Land). Wyclif | mentions | among other names kaar and cockalella for the white | cockatoo, and, as only name of the yellow-crested | cockatoo, | kaneky. A white bird with a yellow crest: symbol of | day and | sun. | | 11) North of the Blombos Cave lived the now extinct | /Xam | Bushmen; /Xam-ka !ei, People of the Dust; indigenous | people | of South Africa's Northern Cape province. / is a | dental | click (put your tongue against your top teeth and | withdraw | it with a loud suck). ! is the guttural | (alveolar-palatal) | click. | | I rely here on two books: The Broken String, The Last | Words | of an Extinct People, by Neil Bennun, Viking / Penguin | 2004; and The Bushmen of Southern Africa, Slaughter of | the | Innocent, by Sandy Gall, Chatto & Windus London 2001. | Looking out for Ka-words, and for legends involving | cranes | and similar birds, I compile information from these | books, | using the authors' words and my own words (mistakes | are | mine). | | The /Xam-ka !ei believed in a First World populated by | the | Early Race. However, the Ant-eaters turned the First | World | into the world we know. Some persons remained people, | others became animals and rocks. Two supernatural | entities | survived the passage from the first to our world: | !Khwa, | rain, water, and /Kaggen, creator, trickster, pathetic | fool, tragic hero, coward, clown, above moral and | responsibility - yet he did all for his sister the | Blue | Crane, and was a protective uncle to her daughter | Kattau, | a small springbok. On the first night, he created the | moon | by throwing up a red shoe filled with dust. /Kaggen | also | created the People of the Dust /Xam-ka !ei. He gave | names | to all places. He created the Eland and rode sitting | between its horns. His name means Mantis, yet he was | an old | man, and he could grow feathers and wings and flow | away. | One of his sons was !Gaunu-ts'axau, !Gaunu's Eye, | named for | the great star who sang the names of the stars. | /Kaggen was | present in the yellow of the rainbow. He brought fire, | clothes and tools to human beings through the power of | his | dreams alone. | | The Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve | tell | a story of the sun's origin: Pisamboro, a lesser god, | spotted a red-hot coal under a wing of the Ostrich, a | legendary being, stole it, from it gave fire to the | people, | then threw it high in the air. Twice it fell back to | earth, | but the third time it stayed in the sky and became the | sun. | | 12) Two further books on the Bushmen - Bushman | Folktales, | Oral Traditions of the Nharo of Botswana and the /Xam | of | the Cape, by Mathias Guenther, Franz Steiner Wiesbaden | Stuttgart 1989 / Specimens of Bushmen Folklore, | collected | by Wilhelm H.I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd, Daimon Verlag | Einsiedeln 2001, facsimile of a reprint of a book | published | by London 1911 - provide more words that | fit | in my concept. | | Clicks: / dental, ! guttural, // lateral, -/ palatal | | Nharo of Botswana (my interpretations in brackets): | | /kam - two (the Ka-world and our world are two worlds) | | !ka.ka - separated (our world separated from the | Ka-world) | | /Xam of the Cape (my interpretations in brackets): | | //kabbu - dream (the Early Race of the First World was | able | to dream things into existence, and to sing them into | being, much as the Australian Aboriginals of the | Dreamtime) | | !kaken .kaka /aui - a small bird; /ka-kau - a small | bird, | Saxicola castor; .kaui - egg | | //kaiten - to ascend; //kao or //kau - be mounted, | upon | | !kaoken - stone; .karru - bushes, perhaps also | blossoms | | //ka - to be wet (.khwa - water, rain) | | !kauken - children; .(k)auuken - body; .kaxu - breast, | chest | | -/kakka - speak, tell; ka - to think that | | /karra - to bask in the sun | | !ka!kauru - moon, shoe of the trickster /Kaggen thrown | up | in the sky. The shoe of /Kaggen was speaking, and so | the | moon was speaking. The moon told the hare to console | the | ill people: they will live on, as the moon waxes again | when | it had vanished. Yet the hare made a mess of the | moon's | words and told people they will die and vanish. Thus | death | came into the world. The moon protected game and by | doing | so led bushmen into arid zones, being sort of a | " Kalahari- | Lorelei. " (The speaking shoe turning into the speaking | moon | refers to the telling marks feet and hoofs leave in | the | ground and " speak " to a hunter. Emu tracks are most | frequent among Australian Aboriginal rock art.) A | prayer to | the Young Moon goes: " !kabbi-a yonder, Take my face. | Thou | shalt give me thy face yonder. " The praying person | begs the | moon for its face that comes to live again (hence | asking | for a new life). The word !kabbi-a was not understood | in | 1911, and I don't know whether it is understood by now | (if | not, I propose a connection to a life in the | Ka-world). | | The main informant of Bleek and Lloyd was a /Xam | shaman by | the name of /Kabbu, Dream, and he was mainly | interested in | /Kaggen, The Bleek and Lloyd Collection comprises more | than | 12,000 pages and has become part of UNESCO's " Memory | of the | World " Register for Documentary Heritage. Microfilms | available from the University of Cape Town. The | Library of Texas A & M University has a microfilm. | | 13) KA is my hypothetical Middle Stone Age name and | philosophical concept of the Other World, which may | survive | in the mythical First World and Early Race of the San | or | Bushmen in Southern Africa. The First World is still | present, accessible through waterholes and cracks in | rocks | - however, only for shamans, who wear antelope antlers | and | undergo the painful death of an eland hit by a | poisoned | arrow, but only a half death, inflicted either by a | drug or | by a monotonous dance combined with hyperventilation. | | Ka, as a world behind the world, a life behind life, | would | have been a powerful concept, still valid in our time, | and | perhaps better understandable if I spoke of the Other | Aspect | | | | Spiritual freedom is my birthright. | I am a free thinker. I am able to rise above mental | prejudices and stereotypes of others. | I am a free thinker. Nobody and nothing can manipulate | me or deceive me. | I am a free thinker. I freely choose truth and love. | Today, I embrace a greater degree of spiritual | freedom. | | __________________________________________________ | Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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