Kaang

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Kaang
Kaang is the creator god of the African Bushmen. However unlike !Xu he is more Deistic in that he is said to have went away after he made all things. This is because met with such opposition in the world. The Bushmen regard him as the god of natural phenomena that is present in all things. However he is deemed especially the mantis and caterpillar. He faced disobedience from the first men he had created so sent fire and destruction to Earth. After that he moved his abode into the top of the sky. There are many myths attached to Kaang which almost make him an epic hero in his own right. Among those myths is one that has him being eaten by an ogre who later vomits him back up. Another relates his being "killed" by thorns. After this "death" the ants picked his bones clean, but Kaang reassembled his skeleton and rose again. The Bushmen say he created the moon from an old shoe.
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Kaang
[African] The creator god of the African Bushmen, Kaang is said to have made all things, but met with such opposition in the world that he went away. He is regarded as the god of natural phenomena, present in all things, but especially the mantis and caterpillar. Receiving disobedience from the first men he had created, Kaang sent fire and destruction to Earth, and removed his abode into the top of the sky. Kaang has many myths attached to him, and is almost figured as an epic hero himself. One of the myths concerns his being eaten by an ogre, who then vomited him back up. Another relates to the occasion that he was killed by thorns. The ants picked his bones clean, but Kaang reassembled his skeleton and rose again. The Bushmen say he created the moon from an old shoe. With his wife Coti he had two sons: Cogaz and Gewi.


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