ǐXue

spirit · Namibia · Southern Africa

ǐXue is the trickster being of the ǓKun (ǓXung) people of northeastern Namibia, described by scholars as Khoisan mythology's most unrestrained shapeshifter with a trigger-sharp readiness for transformation. ǐXue can transform himself into each and everything conceivable. He has a complicated association with the moon and the hare (one of his most integral animal personas), and is connected to the divinity Huwe and spirit beings ǁgana. ǐXue appears in over 110 stories recorded by Lucy Lloyd from two young ǓKun storytellers between 1879 and 1882. The trickster spirit also engages in a complex di

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