Amazimu

Gallû

Inspiration

The word izimu, in the Zulu tales, is usually, as by Callaway and Theal, translated 'cannibal.' But this word, with us, is ordinarily applied to people who, for one reason or another, are accustomed to eat human flesh. As Callaway pointed out long ago, however, "it is perfectly clear that the cannibals of the Zulu legends are not common men; they are magnified into giants and magicians." Perhaps it might also be said that the attributes of the legendary amazimu were transferred to the abhorred beings, who, driven to cannibalism by famine, kept up the habit when it was no longer needed and, as Ulutuli Dhladhla told the bishop, "rebelled against men, forsook them, and liked to eat them, and men drove them away . . . so they were regarded as a distinct nation, for men were game (izinyamazane) to them." In fact, he distinctly says that "once they were men," and implies that they were so no longer.

Perversions

• Bestiality
• Obscurantism
• Violence

Sources

https://sacred-texts.com/afr/mlb/mlb14.htm

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bushmen

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