Tembo · Zebra
Tembo Shumba Samaita is a Shona clan of the Tembo totem, the zebra (mbizi), whose detembo also calls it Shumba, the lion. Its men are greeted as Samaita, Mashongera, Njuma yerenje and Gakangoma, and its women as VaTembo and VaMbizi.
Maita Mbizi, Mwaita Chiwara, Njuma yerenje, Mashongera.
Hekani vene veChirovarova, Vakabva Marenje. Mwaita Tembo Shumba,
Zvaitwa Muroro, Musimira, Maruki. Mwazviita Mupiyaniswa, Magunde avasikana,
Wazviita Mbizi yokwaChikanga. Totenda vaChifambausiku, Tendai waMutasa, Muzungu, Mutakurwa,
Mushambadzi wamachira, Chitendera chamambo changu chichi, Mbizi yakashonga mikonde savakadzi.
Maita Shumba Tembo, WaSenwa avete Gorongozi, Mwaita vari Makarati,
Vari Marenje, Guruuswa Tatenda VaMoyo, Zvaitwa Dhuve rangu riri,
Rina makwapa makwapa, Hekani vaChikanga, Mbizi Chiverekete.
Mwaita Shumba yapasi. Mwaita Zenze, Romo, Kuwa kweBinga zuva rinoora.
Mwaita vari kuGwara, Mahwemachena, Zvaitwa vari kuTsoka, Vari Chirovarova neMahwemasimike.
Maita Chihwa, Shumba yevese, Maita henyu vari kuChai, Mahwemanyoro, Aiwa zvaitwa Dehwerembidzi, Gakangoma,
Zvaitwa Samaita.
Your mutupo and its detembo as an image for WhatsApp, your status or a post, carrying the Kwaunobva mark.
The detembo joins two animals. It greets the clan as Mbizi and Chiwara and as njuma yerenje, the hornless beast of the wilderness, and then as Tembo Shumba and Shumba Tembo, the zebra that is also a lion. It says the clan came from Marenje and owns Chirovarova (vene veChirovarova), and greets it at Gorongozi, Makarati, Marenje and Guruuswa.
It names the clan's people as Muroro, Musimira and Maruki, Chifambausiku, the one who travels by night, Muzungu and Mutakurwa, and calls the clan Mbizi yokwaChikanga, Chikanga's zebra, a trader in cloth (mushambadzi wamachira), naming Mutasa too. Some lines match the Mazvimbakupa poem, among them the zebra adorned as women adorn themselves. The longer version given here closes on Dehwerembidzi, Gakangoma and Samaita.
Those who carry a totem do not eat its animal. Some families keep away from one part of it only, such as the heart, and the old belief holds that a person who breaks the rule loses their teeth.
The praise names are for every day, not only for ceremonies: a person is greeted by them, thanked with them, and a wife praises her husband with his.
Tembo Shumba Samaita mutupo weMbizi. Varume vanokudzwa seSamaita, Mashongera naNjuma yerenje, vakadzi seVaTembo naVaMbizi. Detembo ravo rinovadaidza kuti Tembo Shumba, rinoti vakabva Marenje, vene veChirovarova. Rinovakwazisa vari Makarati neGuruuswa, richivati Mbizi yokwaChikanga. Rinovadaidzawo kuti vaChifambausiku, Muzungu naMutakurwa.
The detembo itself greets the clan as Tembo Shumba and Shumba Tembo, zebra and lion together, alongside Mbizi. It does not explain the pairing, and no other source here does.
The hornless beast of the wilderness. The Samaita detembo gives the zebra this name in its opening lines, and the Mazvimbakupa poem uses it too, beside njuma isina nyanga, the beast without horns.
Yes. The Mitupo collection heads its zebra section Samaita and Mbizi, and its Mazvimbakupa poem closes on Zvimbakupa and Samaita. The men of this clan are greeted as Samaita as well.
In Mutasa, though families carrying it live all over Zimbabwe and beyond.
Traditionally, people of the same mutupo and chidawo do not marry: they are counted as one family. Between different Tembo clans some families allow it, often after a ceremony that cuts the kinship (kucheka ukama).
Pick your totem and clan once. The app greets you by your praise name after that.
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