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| Title: | Number symbolism (nos. 1, 4, 7 and 1,000) in Swahili poetry: the case of 'Utenzi wa Fatumah' |
| Author: | wa Mutiso, Kineene |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Periodical: | Kiswahili (ISSN 0856-048X) |
| Volume: | 77 |
| Pages: | 132-148 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | poetry Swahili language symbols |
| Abstract: | This paper explores number symbolism in Kiswahili poetry and in particular in the Swahili poem 'Utenzi wa Fatumah' ('The epic of Fatuma'). Most of the article is devoted to the number 4, which is described as a number bringing order into the chaos. Reference is made to the four cardinal point of the earth, the four humours and the four elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water). Other numbers discussed are 1 and 1,000. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
