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See also:TROGLODYTES (rpcay?oSurat, from rpwyXn, hole, Svw, creep) , " See also:cave-dwellers," a name applied by See also:ancient writers to different tribes in various parts of the See also:world. See also:Strabo speaks of them in See also:Moesia, See also:south of the See also:Danube (vii. 318), in the See also:Caucasus (xi. 5o6), but especially in various parts of See also:Africa from See also:Libya (xvii. 828) to the Red See also:Sea. The troglodyte Ethiopians of See also:Herodotus (iv. 183) in inner Africa, very See also:swift of See also:foot, living on lizards and creeping things, and with a speech like the screech of an See also:owl,- have been identified with the Tibbus of See also:Fezzan. v - v —v –v - V – —v vvv v o i d vvv vvv vvv v v vv v vv u. V u - ow- - V V - V V - V V -Vv ^vv - v V -v v. According to See also:Aristotle (Hiss. An viii. 12) a dwarfish See also:race of Troglodytes dwelt on the upper course of the See also:Nile, who possessed horses and were in his See also:opinion the Pygmies of See also:fable. But the best known of these See also:African cave-dwellers were the inhabitants of the "Troglodyte See also:country" (Tpe yXoSvruc$) on the See also:coast of the Red Sea, as far See also:north as the See also:Greek See also:port of See also:Berenice, of whom an See also:account has been preserved by Diodorus (iii. 31) and See also:Photius (p. 454 See also:Bekker) from See also:Agatharchides of See also:Cnidus, and by See also:Artemidorus in Strabo (xvi. 776). They were a See also:pastoral See also:people, living entirely on the flesh of their herds, or, in the See also:season of fresh pasture, on mingled See also:milk and See also:blood. But they killed only old or sick See also:cattle (as indeed they killed old men who could no longer follow the See also:flock), and the butchers were called "unclean"; See also:nay, they gave the name of See also:parent to no See also:man, but only to the cattle which provided their subsistence. This last point seems to be a confused indication of See also:totemism. They went almost naked; the See also:women wore necklaces of shells as amulets. See also:Marriage was unknown, except among the chiefs—a fact which agrees with the prevalence of See also:female kinship in these regions in much later times. They practised See also:circumcision or a See also:mutilation of a more serious See also:kind. Their See also:burial See also:rites were See also:peculiar. The dead See also:body, its See also:neck and legs See also:bound together with withies of the See also:shrub called paliurus, was set up on a See also:mound, and pelted with stones amidst the jeers of the onlookers, until its See also:face was completely covered with them. A See also:goat's See also:horn was then placed above it, and the See also:crowd dispersed with manifestations of joy. It is supposed that the Horim or Horites, the aboriginal inhabitants of See also:Mount Seir, if their name is correctly interpreted "cave-dwellers," were a kindred people to the Troglodytes on the other See also:side of the Red Sea. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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