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W. Hammond Tooke. — The Star 



[Oct. 31, 



his eyes to trace the patterns on " this majestical roof, fretted with 

 golden fire," nor to note the rising or setting of planet or asteroid, 

 except as it may serve to mark the advent of the planting season, &c. 



The ama Zulu and ama Xosa call the Sun Ilanga^ but they seem 

 to regard it with no veneration and look on it neither as an ancestor 

 nor as a deity. 



The Xosas have indeed a tradition that the creator or first ancestor, 

 ZThlaiiga, came out of a cave situated eastward " from whence the 

 Sun issues every morning," and this legend together with the verbal 

 similarity of Uhlanga to Ilanga might lead to the conjecture that 

 there is a common origin on the two words. And doubtless both 

 words bear within them the original conception of rising " originating 

 from." Uhlanga is however more closely connected with Umhlanga, 

 a reed, and the most common form of the myth is that Uhlanga 

 the first man sprang from a reed or bed of reeds. Thus it would 

 rather seem to indicate that the Kaffir at some early period migrated 

 from some marshy locality like the shores of Lake Bangweolo or the 

 ambatchchoked head waters of the Nile than that he ever considered 

 himself a Child of the Sun. 



The use of the word Ilanga for Sun seems confined to the Zulu 

 and Xosa tribes. The ama Mbalu or ama Langa have disused it 

 on account of a noted chief of their clan bearing the name and they 

 have substituted isota instead. 



The word most universally used among the Bantu is some form 

 -of Zuiva. Thus : 



Tribe. 





Locality. 







Ama Tonga 



... 



Sofala 





Zuba 



Ba Nyai 





Near Tette 





Zuwa 



Ma Ravi 



... 



South of Lake Nyassa 





Dsua 



Wa Sambara 





... 





Zua 



Wa Swaheli 



... 



Zanzibar and Mombasa 





Jua 



Wa Taveita 

 Wa Chaga 



1 



Kilimanjaro ... 



i 



Zuwa 

 Eruwa 



Wa Ganda 



... 



L. Victoria Nyanza 



.>. 



Nguba 



Eshi Kongo 



... 



Sao Salvador ... 



... 



Ntuva 



Ora Herero 



... 



Damaraland ... 



... 



Eyuva. 



Only among the Wa Chaga does this word connote the meaning of 

 God or deity as well as Sun, and this may perhaps be explained by 

 their proximity to the Masai or other Sudan tribes amongst which 

 heaven worship exists. 



