... Somali mythology, meteors are associated with jinns who, as tradition has it, were created two thousand years before Adam. Stories abound which ascribe to these pre-Adamite beings the genius of having been the architects of the pyramids ...
... Somali mythology links the genesis of the people of the area to an ancient communion between people from the Arabian Peninsula , and the Bantu or Oromo people of the hinterland . But the linguistic and ethno - historical advances of the ...
... Somali mythology asserts that all Somalis speak alike . Previous workers have , to some extent , accepted the Somalis ' appraisal of the situation and have found very little dialectal differentiation . Such uniformity of speech is at ...
... Somali mythology, a man who can transform himself into a hyena by rubbing himself with a magic stick at nightfall, and by repeating this process can return to his human state before dawn. I've never seen this process and can't attest to ...
... Somali mythology links the genesis of the people of the area to an ancient communion between the African ( Bantu ) peoples of the hinterland and visitors from the Arabian Peninsula - with particular ties to the Prophet Maxammad's family ...
... Somali mythology , self - recogni- tion , and some earlier scholarship that the Somali people not only were the sons and daughters of an ancient Arabian society but also had very little in common with their neighbors . To commemorate ...
... Somali mythology the cosmos balances on the horns of a bull, a beast that is forever staring at a cow tied to a pole right in front of him. It is said the bull's body loses equilibrium whenever his love, the cow, turns its eyes ...
... Somali mythology , three clan chiefs ( Isaac , Darood and Dir ) emigrated from Arabia to Somalia , married local women , and established the Somali clan families in the tenth century AD.15 Somalis began to push Oromo and Bantu tribes ...
... Somali mythology states to be as many as 99. In individual or collective meditation , the person and his / her family endeavour on the one hand to transfer their trouble ' to be borne in the great beyond ' , and on the other , to obtain ...