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Lines 272 - 292
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- Lambani ndi
:
Lambani is one who gives a lot of food:
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273 |
- Mutama-ndele a ye
.
Let the lover of smart people go to Mavunde.
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274 |
- Hu na Ifani wa Maguvhu.
There is Ifani, (child) of the Sotho.
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275 |
a swa a ya sananga.
It burns and it becomes empty dry country.
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276 |
- Vhalovhedzi na Vhahananwa,
The Lovedu and the Xananwa
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277 |
- Mitupo vha ila
,
Are clans who avoid the river-reed,
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278 |
- Vha ila buka
.
They avoid the great beast that lives in the water (i.e. crocodile).
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Lines 276-278 refer to the peoples who live respectively to the south-east and south-west of the Venda. Muhananwa appears as a domba show.
279 |
- Luongori lwa Vho-
,
Luongori, the place of Madadzhe,
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280 |
ndi Vho- ,
Madadzhe the Lord of the Grove,
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281 |
- Tshi no pfi tsho remwa mbalelo:
Which is known as the place to cut wattling:
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282 |
- Matshelo tshi
remwa khwivho.
Tomorrow a new garden will be cleared.
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The grove described lies between Gaba and the hill Luongori, and is not cultivated. It collects the water whenever there is rain.
283 |
- Khalaru yo tiba Luvhirnbi,
The mist that covers the hill of Luvhimbi,
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284 |
- Yo tiba
-Thengwe a .
Covered the ruler of Thengwe.
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285 |
- Vhatshinyali vha a seana:
Those who suffer sympathize with each other (lit. laugh together):
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286 |
-Thengwe o sea Luvhimbi,
The ruler of Thengwe sympathized with Luvhimbi,
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287 |
- A tshi sea gumbu
mvula.
But he at least had a gourdful of rain.
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The rain-makers lived at Luvhimbi (see milayo Nos. 34 and 43). The rulers at Thengwe and Luvhimbi were both suffering and sympathizing with each other, but Luvhimbi was not badly off because people were coming and paying for rain-making.
288 |
- Thavha khulu dzi a rendana:
Big mountains praise one another:
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289 |
- Luvhola yo renda Luonde;
Luvhola praised Luonde;
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290 |
- Mupumbulu wo mela Vari.
The mupumbulu tree grew at Vari.
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291 |
- Thavha khulu Madzivha-
:
The big mountains (are called) Madzivha-ngombe:
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292 |
- Tshirundu phande tsho fhalala.
The basket has spilled.
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In the nineteenth century, Davhana stayed at Luvhola, a sharply pointed mountain east of Elim, and ruled an area which included Vari, between Elim and Lemana, and Madzivha-ngombe, a group of hills in the plains to the south-east (see (van Warmelo 1940:39-40 and 142).
Luonde is the mountain to the east of Louis Trichardt, known as Piesangkop; it was the headquarters of the Mukwevho clan (see lines 137-39).
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