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Mythologies of the Khoikhoi Tribe

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Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe ( /ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ KOY-koy ) [ a ] are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa . They are often grouped with the hunter-gatherer San (literally "foragers") peoples, the accepted term for the two people being Khoisan . [ 2 ] The designation "Khoikhoi" is actually a kare , or praise address, not an ethnic endonym, but it has been used in the literature as an ethnic term for Khoe -speaking peoples of Southern Africa, particularly pastoralist groups, such as the Inqua , Griqua , Gonaqua , Nama , Attequa . The Khoekhoe were once known as Hottentots , a term now considered offensive.  The Khoekhoe are thought to have diverged from other humans 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.   In the 17th century, the Khoekhoe maintained large herds of Nguni cattle in the Cape region .  The Khoekhoe language is related to certain dialects spoken by foraging San peoples of the Kalahari , such as the Khwe and Tshwa , formi...
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Mythologies of the Shompen/Shom Pen Tribe

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  The Shompen or Shom Pen are the Indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island , part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands .  The Shompen are designated as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group  within the list of Scheduled Tribes .  "Shompen" is possibly an English mispronunciation of "Shamhap", the Nicobarese name for the tribe. The Shompens living on the western side of the island call themselves Kalay , and those on the eastern side Keyet , with both groups referring to each other as Buavela .  A suggestion from 1886 that the Shompen call themselves Shab Daw'a has not been confirmed by modern research.  Before the first outside contact with the Shompen in the 1840s, there is no reliable information about these people. Danish Admiral Steen Andersen Bille was the first to contact them in 1846 and Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff , a Danish philologist who had already published works on the languages of Nicobar an...
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