The Southern Sotho's ultimate object of worship : sky-divinity or water-divinity?

Doctoral Thesis

2001

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Rakotsoane, Francis Lobiane Clement
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Kwenda, Chirevo
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Religious Studies
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Faculty of Humanities
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This thesis is an attempt to find out how much justified the missionaries and some local authors are in identifying Molimo with their Christian God (Sky-Divinity). A critical analysis of various Basotho cultural elements and what the early Basotho told the missionaries reveal that Molimo as an ultimate object of worship in the traditional religion of the Southern Sotho, is Water-Divinity, namely, Water Snake and not a celestial being or Sky-Divinity.
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Bibliography: leaves 231-241.

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African Traditional Religion

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Rakotsoane, F. 2001. The Southern Sotho's ultimate object of worship : sky-divinity or water-divinity?. University of Cape Town.

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PhD / Doctoral