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Ethnic group Sotho people Basotho King Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Southern Basotho Nation of Lesotho, with his Ministers. Total population c. 7,254,315 (2023 est.) Regions with significant populations South Africa 5,103,205 Lesotho 2,130,110 Botswana 11,000 Eswatini 6,000 Namibia 4,000 Languages Sesotho & English Religion Christianity, Modimo Related ethnic groups Pedi people, Tswana people ...
Lebollo la basadi also known as female initiation among the Basotho is a rite of passage ritual which marks the transition of girls into womanhood. This activity is still practiced in the Free State, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal provinces of South Africa. In Sesotho, lebollo means initiation. The Basotho rite of passage ritual ...
Lebollo la banna is a Sesotho term for male initiation.. Lebollo is a cultural and traditional practice that transitions boys in the Basotho society to manhood. It is a rite of passage where bashanyana or bashemane (transl. "uncircumcised boys") pass puberty and enter adulthood to become monna (transl. "men") by circumcision.
discarding ritual utensils and; mining of the red clay for ceremonies. The Basotho and other African traditions find water to be an element which is ancestrally significant therefore, the streams and pools in the caves play an important role in the ceremonies that occur in the sacred caves. [4]
Modimo. Modimo (also spelt as Molimo in Lesotho Sesotho, and known as Mudzimu or Raluvhimba in Tshivenda [1] and uMlimo or Zimu in Southern and Northern Ndebele) is a creator god, supreme deity and sky deity in the traditional religion of the Sotho-Tswana people. Modimo and all its derivatives ultimately stem from the proto-Sotho-Tswana prefix ...
If you have any concern with negative history or energy attached to a new or unfamiliar object, burning sage may help bring peace of mind and make the object more sacred to you. 6. It may help ...
African dream root is an herb native to South Africa. People prize the plant for its roots. These roots contain compounds, such as triterpene saponins, alkaloids, and diterpenoids, which may be ...
The Sotho-Tswana, also known as the Sotho or Basotho, [ 1 ] although the term is now closely associated with the Southern Sotho peoples [ 2 ] are a meta-ethnicity of Southern Africa. They are a large and diverse group of people who speak Sotho-Tswana languages. [ 3 ] The group is predominantly found in Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, and the ...