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

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.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Religious Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Rakotsoane, Francis Lobiane Clement

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kwenda, Chirevo

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10889

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10889