Bayajidda (mythology)
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 105 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5081-4926-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bayajidda (Hausa: Baya?jidda) is a character from the traditional history of the Hausa people of Nigeria and the central figure of the Bayajidda Legend. The various versions of the legend differ on major points, but generally agree that early immigrants came to the western region of Lake Chad from the Near East. Most accounts say that Bayajidda came from Baghdad, traveled across the Sahara, and arrived in the Kanem-Bornu Empire, where he married a local princess. Tensions with her father, the king, forced him to flee; leaving his wife in Hadejia, where she delivered his first son, he made his way to Gaya, where he had the local blacksmiths forge him a knife. With this knife and his sword, Bayajidda proceeded to the final point on his journey, the city of Daura, where he slew a serpent that had been terrorizing the townspeople. In gratitude for this heroic deed Magajiya Daurama, the local queen, married him. He had one child, Bawo, with...