From time
untold , stories have been passed down from generation to generation in a
largely oral , and some generations can appreciate a lesser extent remains of
civilizations that tried to somehow capture their ethnic culture through
paintings in caves, clay vessels , etc. . The reason to pass this kind of
wisdom to younger is trying to keep the values of their community and
civilization, on the other hand served to forge a social morality, thus
remained governed by the rules of the community. In South African culture is
customary not convey " unknown " knowledge of culture without having
told a story or a riddle menso thus could observe what was the reaction of the
infant and capture better if the intellectual level was small fit enough for this
new knowledge , one of the most used methods to correct the child was learning
to use the media environment as stories or riddles (fauna , demography ,
geography and flora) and retains little better.
Myths and
legends have also served to somehow explain to society and culture, the
beginning of time and societies, of the things of nature and well. It is
believed that there are over 2,500 myths and legends, which are transmitted in
the same way that stories, orally and in prose where the characters suffer
adventures and challenges to leave the listener some teaching in Africa.
Mabalel
The legend tells the story of young Mabalel , daughter of the chief of a South African tribe , full of life , happy and beautiful , her skin and as black as the night hair, Mabalel walking in the woods , only the sound is heard their anklets and accompanied only shadows. He had gone to fetch water from a well that was on the other side of a river that divided the forest land where his tribe was , his family and his soul ..
The legend tells the story of young Mabalel , daughter of the chief of a South African tribe , full of life , happy and beautiful , her skin and as black as the night hair, Mabalel walking in the woods , only the sound is heard their anklets and accompanied only shadows. He had gone to fetch water from a well that was on the other side of a river that divided the forest land where his tribe was , his family and his soul ..
Night came
and sunset, Mabalel was returning to his village , he could only watch the
lights that lit the first fires on the horizon when his ankle touched the water
of the river to cross , a dark shadow in the water and approached her ...
"Mabalel run , run ! " They whispered shadows around. Lalele In water
, the great crocodile god , who waited patiently for Mabalel was hiding.
Only water
movement was heard near the shore and how it sank into the vase water background.
Mabalel never returned home.
Racheltjie
de Beer
She is a
heroine in South Africa, to protect his little brother from the merciless
temperatures raze any life in its path, in those cold nights in the South
African desert.
Daughter of
George Stephanus de Beer, tells Rachel Rachel winter months of 1843 was part of
a trek from the Orange Free State to the south-eastern Transvaal. One of their
nightly During Stopovers, the members of the trek Realised That a calf called
Frikkie, much-beloved by Their children, was missing.
At the time
Rachel and her brother left the group lost in the desert, Late Night lass
desert temperatures down, starting to snow.
Trying to
keep out the cold and snow, Rachel sought refuge, finding a anthill dug into
this and introduced his little brother who is only 6 years old. That's how
Rachel sacrificed to save his dying of cold and hypothermia family.
