ANIMISTIC PLANTING MAN 33 



Category Earth. 

 Class (3) Ki or Xi (Tchi), plural Bi. 



In this class we find words expressing office, 

 agency, or condition, or words which in their English 

 equivalents end in the suffixes ship, ness, dom Xitinu 

 kingship, from Ntinu a king. 



When nobles in Loango speak of the earth they 

 use the word Xivili, which is also the name of their 

 language. 



The centre of digestive thought Xifundi is often 

 said to be the stomach Xivumu. Xizuissu means 

 right, reason he calls Xizonza, and intelligence 

 Xibalanga (the verb Zonza meaning to disagree and 

 Balanga to keep on hardening). Xinsu is a sign ; 

 Xizala a nail of the finger; Xisa a picture; Xina a 

 thing forbidden; Xibunzu esteem; Xidunzindunzi 

 tete-a-tete. Grass is called Xititi, and firewood Xixi. 



This category falls into the place of the season 

 of two months (Xicivu) called Bunji, the end of the 

 cold dry season nearing the end of the hunter's season 

 and the beginning of the rains. The ancient hunter 

 used either a cudgel Kodi or Bota, and later on a kind 

 of hatchet Xitali ; he gained access to young animals 

 by mimicking their mother's call or cry Dilu. He was 

 thus a great deceiver Mvuni. Small showers 

 Wangawanga warn the hunters and fishermen that it is 

 time for them to leave their hunting-camps and return 

 to their villages to repair their houses. 



In this Ki Bi class we have the deceitful little 



