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ǀKaggen (more accurately ǀKágge̥n or ǀKaggən, [1] sometimes corrupted to Cagn [2] and sometimes called Mantis) is a demiurge and folk hero of the San people of southern Africa. [3] He is a trickster god who can shape shift , usually taking the form of a praying mantis but also a bull eland , a louse , a snake , and a caterpillar .
The mantis was revered by the southern African Khoi and San in whose cultures man and nature were intertwined; for its praying posture, the mantis was even named Hottentotsgot ("god of the Hottentots") in the Afrikaans language that had developed among the first European settlers. [97]
The Kalahari Desert's San people tell of a bee that carried a mantis across a river. The exhausted bee left the mantis on a floating flower but planted a seed in the mantis's body before it died. The seed grew to become the first human. [1] In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand.
ǀKágge̥n (sometimes corrupted to "Cagn" [1]) is Mantis, a demiurge and hero in ǀXam folklore. [2] He is a trickster god who can shape-shift. He and his wife ǀHúnntuǃattǃatte̥n. ǀHúnntuǃattǃatte̥n (also known as or corrupted to "Coti" [1]), the Dassie, adopted ǃXo, Porcupine, as their daughter. [3]
[5] The first known mantis in Greek literature is Calchas, the mantis of the first scenes of the Iliad. His mantosune, or "art of divination" (Cicero's mantike, which he translates into Latin as divinatio), endowed him with knowledge of past, present, and future, which he got from Apollo (Iliad A 68–72). He was the army's official mantis.
The European mantis (Mantis religiosa) is a large hemimetabolic insect in the family of the Mantidae ('mantids'), which is the largest family of the order Mantodea (mantises). [3] Their common name praying mantis is derived from the distinctive posture of the first pair of legs that can be observed in animals in repose. It resembles a praying ...
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There are many legends surrounding the creation of Northern Praying Mantis boxing. One legend attributes the creation of Mantis fist to the Song dynasty when Abbot Fu Ju (福居), a legendary persona of the historical Abbot Fu Yu (福裕) (1203–1275), supposedly invited Wang Lang (王朗) and seventeen other masters to come and improve the martial arts of Shaolin. [7]