Southern African cosmogenic geomythology ("following a star") of the Zion Christian Church
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Wade, Richard Peter
Eriksson, Patrick George
Rautenbach, Cornelis Johannes de Wet
Duncan, Graham A.
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Taylor & Francis
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Oral traditions and indigenous knowledge of the Limpopo Province in South Africa suggest a meteor event occurred in the area several decades ago. This relatively recent significant meteor event with associated features may have contributed to a revitalization of 13th century ancestral geomythology, also
based on an astronomical event, and to an ideological transformation that augmented a vast sociopolitical belief system in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Geomythology, Meteor, Impact crater, Archaeoastronomy, Lemba, Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), RX J0852.0-4622, G266.2-1.2, Great Zimbabwe, Oral tradition, Zion Christian Church (ZCC)
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Richard P. Wade, Patrick G. Eriksson, Hannes C.J. deW Rautenbach & G.A. Duncan (2014) Southern African cosmogenic geomythology (“following a star”) of the Zion Christian Church, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 69:2, 81-89, DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2014.905880.