Utixo or Tiqua was a god of the

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(the native pastoralist people of Southwestern Africa). Utixo was a benevolent deity who lived in the sky, sending rain for the crops, and speaking with thunder. Utixo is sometimes translated as ''wounded knee''. One story that has survived in Christian literature, was that Utixo sent a message to his people that death would not be eternal. He used a rabbit to carry the message. The rabbit became confused, reversed the message, and ended up telling men that they would not rise again. Utixo was the word that missionaries used for translating ''God'' into

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. The

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call the God UNkulunkulu, the Great One, and uMvelinqangi, the one was before all were.

References

* Hahn, Theophilus (1881) ''Tsuni-Goam, the Supreme Being of the Khoi-Khoi'' Trübner, London; * Kidd, Dudley (1904) ''The Essential Kafir'' A. and C. Black, London; * Massey, Gerald (1881) ''Book of the Beginnings, containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines icof the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace'' Williams and Norgate, London;

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