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Title: | Gitlane: Where the Moon Sickle Strikes: On the Edge of Time at Elandsdoorn |
Author: | Hromník, Cyril A. |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 1-17 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Pedi time Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/632/455 |
Abstract: | Ancient trade between gold-producing southern Africa and gold-consuming India shaped the people and the history of the Pedi country in Mpumalanga and Northern Provinces of South Africa. The culture and religious beliefs of the Pedi and the Quena (Hottentots) who lived here before the Bantu-speakers arrived, reflect this history. Ancient stone ruins ('litaku'), built during that period of Indo-African interaction, reflect the religious cosmology of ancient Dravidian India. Time was a factor that mattered in the context of the Indo-African culture, and it was measured precisely. A moon sickle on a hill south of the Gitlane River was one of the Indo-Quenas' horological instruments, which measured the time of death for the community of monks and aged recluses in a nearby cave monastery. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |