Rock art in Africa : mythology and legend / Jean-Loic Le Quellec ; translated by Paul Bahn.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-211).

The Sahara -- Elias, mast of the rain and guardian of the desert -- Lhote and the lotori -- Levi-Strauss in the Sahara -- A very old "story of the eye" -- The "swimmers" of The English patient -- Elephantine loves -- The intertropical zone -- In Mali: images of Dogon country -- In Burkina Faso: weapons, reptiles, and goblin prints -- In Nigeria: "ceremony mountains," pictograms, and lithophones -- Cameroon, Central African republic, Congo, Gabon: circles and lines, throwing knives, and chameleons -- Democratic republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Angola: "fetish stones," tattooed pebbles, sand images -- Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia: ancestor cult and Nyau masquerades -- Azania -- Boophilia in the kingdom of coffee -- Attempts at attribution -- The magical drawings of the Sandawe -- Ethnogony and images of the dead -- Caves of spirits and rainmakers -- Funerary signs -- Harla, Germans, Portuguese, and other savages -- Antecedents, new uses, meanings -- Southern Africa -- First approaches -- The myth of the "white lady" -- Corpus and statistics -- From image to myth -- Dates -- The quest for meaning -- A few doubts ..." -- Trance of therianthropes or dance of masked men? -- Not just for the San! -- The legend of the blue ostriches -- Mermaids, water maidens, and aquatic dead people -- The power of the eland -- Shamans of mythical beings? -- The story of the frog-girl.