(// Kaggen) A god of Southern Africa during the late Stone Age (10000 BC - 500 AD) | ||||
| Miṣriqiyā | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2023, Page 1-16 PDF (1009.61 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/misj.2023.192617.1042 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
Asmaa Ali  
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| Institute of African Research and Studies and Nile Basin Countries, Aswan University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The Bushmen who inhabited Southern Africa during the LSA. believed in only one god, who is (// Kaggen), he is considered a god of good and evil, the creator of the whole universe. The Bushmen depicted him as having a dual personality, and Have contradictory characteristics, possesses destructive and constructive desires, He is capable of mortal stupidity, He takes the form of mantis - most of the time - and can change Himself into any other animal form, According to the legend of, (//Kaggen) had a family, but this family did not Have any Holy position, except his wife, the queen bee (Coti), Have a holy position, due to the honey she produced, which is used in rituals, (// Kaggen) has three children, Cogaz and Gewi, and a daughter whose name was not mentioned, his family had a role in the myth of creation, as he gave (//Kaggen) his orders to create all things in the universe out of nothing by mere command, and he did not use any tools, then he finished creating animals, the first animals he created, the antelopes Eland, and when all of the stubbornness Humans have gone far into the sky in an unknown place, (//Kaggen`s) main Enemy is Gauna the leader of the Bad spirits, the connection between people and (//kaggen) is broken they have nothing to do with it except through the shaman, as his worship is a ritual worship rather than a spiritual one and is controlled by the shaman. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Bushmen; // Kaggen; Shaman; Creation Myth | ||||
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