Hunting Unicorns

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Without realizing this distinction, European colonists sought after the unicorn, assuming, at least initially, that it was the creature they knew. They are not at all such as we describe them when we relate that they let themselves be captured by virgins, but clean contrary to our notions. This transgressive act angers the Rain (the ‘water adult’), who punishes the girl and her family by turning them into frogs and reverting their belongings into the materials from which they were made. A visitor to the château described them as quaint 15th century wall hangings, yet showing "incomparable freshness and grace". If a straight person is seen in an LGBTQIA+ space, the most common assumption made about why they are there is that they are seeking a unicorn.

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The difference between the end vowel of the Khoekhoegowab word ( ǁgammi) and that given by van der Kemp ( T'Kamma) is, therefore, probably insignificant. The natural and physical direction in which rainstorms travel in the Eastern Cape and the location of powerful rainmakers in the same direction are significant. The necks of the two animals in the top left corner are turned, confirming that each head has one horn only.Because water is not an animal, it may initially seem unclear why it offers a better translation of kamma than ‘hartebeest’. million and now, the half dozen unknowns whose novels have been chosen as their "Summer Reads" are feeling the stardust. It is thought that the unicorn was the symbol of a powerful "clan or merchant community", but may also have had some religious significance. Cross-cultural interactions in the colonial era often witnessed translations of culturally distinct concepts.

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Tom Campbell, former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acknowledged in 2002 that experts "still do not know for whom or where [the tapestries] were made.By the time you've listed all of that, you're looking for a person that's so rare and highly sought-after that, "you're looking for unicorns. A more probable translation of kamma comes from a footnote in another of van der Kemp's letters to the Missionary Society: ‘ Keis Kamma, is the Hottentot name of the river.