African Starlore: The Stars are Coals and Ash

Another video in the "Moments in the history of optical astronomy in South Africa" series.

Today’s episode is again starlore, in particular a San/Bushman story, titled "The Stars are Coals and Ash", telling how the stars were formed after Owl threw coals and ash into the sky, how owls are still punished for doing this, even today, and how this caused Evil to spread on Earth.

This story was recorded in Volume 1, "Mythology and Legends", titled BOESMANSTORIES, written by Gideon Retief von Wielligh, first published in 1919. Von Wielligh collected about 60 stories from the Bushmen at the time which he published in four-volumes, between 1919 and 1921.

00:00 Today's Story is ...
00:30 The term "Bushman"
00:53 Oral cultures quote
01:05 About the author, GR von Wielligh
01:55 Carol Botha - Bushman paintings background info
02:44 Info on 2nd illustrator & narrator
03:05 The Stars are Coals and Ash
07:20 Good bye