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Dxui: Myths Passed Down by the Bushmen |
| Section: CULTURE / FOLK WISDOM |
| Author: Laurens van der Post |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,791 Words, 14,758 Characters |
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Editor's note: In The Heart of the Hunter, van der Post relates not only the story of his journey out of the Kalahari, but also many of the myths of the Bushmen. But since the Bushman's images and idioms would be utterly incomprehensible to a modern audience, van der Post draws deeply on his experiences and provides interpretations. Thus he attempts to provide a "kind of improvised rope-bridge over the deep abyss between the modern man and the first person of Africa." Probably no one was better suited for the task.
In the beginning, St. John says, was the Word. I believe that is a way of saying that in the beginning there was meaning. This word, this meaning according to the bible was with God and indeed was God. The ancient Chinese said something similar when they defined me...
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...lores the nature of his separation from his son, finally saying, "I go to my country and my country is far away, and many moons I go to my country and do not see my country… and my child is another person…today, I am afraid of my child and go to my own country." His own country, so the little Bushman children said, was a large mountain. The first spirit of Africa was to have its Sinai too.
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