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The creation myth of the people of Buganda, Uganda, includes a figure called Kintu, [1] who was the first person on earth, and the first man to wander the plains of Uganda alone. He has also sometimes been known as God, or the father of all people who created the first kingdoms. [2]
Marmaduke Johnson (1628 – December 25, 1674) was a London printer who was commissioned and sailed from England to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1660 to assist Samuel Green in the printing of The Indian Bible, which had been laboriously translated by John Eliot into the Massachusett Indian language, [1] [2] which became the first Bible printed in America.
The Baganda [3] (endonym: Baganda; singular Muganda) also called Waganda, are a Bantu ethnic group native to Buganda, a subnational kingdom within Uganda.Traditionally composed of 52 clans (although since a 1993 survey, only 46 are officially recognised), the Baganda are the largest people of the Bantu ethnic group in Uganda, comprising 16.5 percent of the population at the time of the 2014 ...
Before the creation of the Kingdom of Buganda, the area was initially known as Muwaawa. With the support of 13 clans, [9] [10] including the Basimba/Leopard (Ngo) clan, [11] [12] [13] Kato Kintu [14] [15] established the Kingdom of Buganda in the 14th century. He became the nation's first kabaka, the official title of the king of Buganda.
New Testament first page of 1685 copy Algonquian Bible 1709: John chapter 3 Algonquian Indian by John White, 1585. The Eliot Indian Bible (Massachusett: Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God; [1] also known as the Algonquian Bible) was the first translation of the Christian Bible into an indigenous American language, as well as the first ...
Kato Kintu Kakulukuku [1] (fl. Late 13th century), [2] known in Bunyoro as Kato Kimera was the first kabaka (king) of the Kingdom of Buganda. "Kintu" is an adopted by-name, chosen for Kintu, the name of the first person on earth in Buganda mythology.
The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New ...
Semei Kakungulu (1869 – 24 November 1928) was a Ugandan statesman who founded the Abayudaya (Luganda: Jews) [1] community in Uganda in 1917. He studied and meditated on the Tanakh, adopted the observance of all Moses' commandments, including circumcision, and suggested this observance for all his followers.