Unicorns in Southern Africa - the Fascinating Story Behind One-Horned Creatures in Rock Art TC_Africa: SouthernAfrica
To complete the process, please follow the instructions in the email we just sent you.In the colonial period, indigenous people were exposed to European images of unicorns on crests, badges and buttons and through tales. In one of the, indigenous people at the Cape saw the British royal coat of arms and commented on the unicorn in it.
Foreign unicorn images may have gradually influenced local ones. Some rock paintings of one-horned creatures - dated by associated human figures in European dress to the colonial period - show horns pointing upward or forward like the European unicorn, rather than backwards like antelopes, such as the eland , on which many rock paintings of one-horned rain-animals are modelled.
One-horned animals depicted in rock art are not mere rhinos nor antelope, nor are they the creatures of European myth. Indigenous beliefs help us to explain that the uncanny resemblance between European unicorns and South African"unicorns" was pure chance. The mixing of foreign beliefs with local ones in colonial South Africa has hidden the independent, indigenous creature.
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