Bhebhe is a Shona totem whose detembo names no animal, and none of the sources used here says which animal it is. It is kept by the Bhebhe Tumbare clan, praised as Tumbare wejira jena, Tumbare of the white cloth, and its short poem links the clan with the Rozvi.
The Bhebhe poem is short and almost wholly a string of names. It greets the clan as Bhebhe and Enzinda, as Tumbare of the white cloth, and as the people of Chulu chaNhave, Chisavase, Chigala, Chichengeta and Chilayilo, and its last line names the Rozvi. It says nothing of an animal, a taboo or a home.
Bhebhe mutupo une detembo risingadudzi mhuka. Dzinza reBhebhe Tumbare rinorumbidzwa seTumbare wejira jena. Detembo ravo ipfupi, rinodudza mazita akaita saEnzinda naChulu chaNhave. Mutsara waro wokupedzisira unodudza VaRozvi.
None of the sources used here says. The Bhebhe Tumbare poem names no animal, and lists that give Bhebhe as the baboon, or as the cow, are not borne out by any source here.
Tumbare of the white cloth. It is how the poem greets the clan; none of the sources used here explains it.
Bhebhe Tumbare.
Traditionally, people of the same mutupo and chidawo do not marry: they are counted as one family. Between different Bhebhe clans some families allow it, often after a ceremony that cuts the kinship (kucheka ukama).
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