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The **Kyza** were the first group of people to settle on Sehto - and never numerous in population. | The **Kyza** were the first group of people to settle on Sehto - and never numerous in population. | ||
- | They ended up taking a strong linguistic deviation from the culture they'd budded from (quasi-African), | + | They ended up taking a strong linguistic deviation from the culture they'd budded from (quasi-African), |
- | something most obvious in their mythology and belief system. They lived on Sehto from 300 to the | + | |
- | whereabouts of 800, when they came to have their land contested by Xhosa settlers that had followed | + | |
- | their routes to discover Sehto a second time, and were regrettably quickly killed. | + | |
- | Not much of Kyza culture remains accessible today, though the names of their settlements have endured | + | Not much of Kyza culture remains accessible today, though the names of their settlements have endured (albeit not without alteration) to this day. Whether they truly settled on Sehto or had a more mythological relation to the [[culture: |
- | (albeit not without alteration) to this day. | + | |
+ | The Xhosa speak of the Kyza in largely mythological contexts, further obscuring the line between historic fact and fiction. | ||
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