SON-JARA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Son-Jara

 

 

 

 

 

Son-Jara

Introduction

Son-Jara was another epic champion who was founded on a genuine chronicled number by the identical title - or renowned as Sundiata or Sun-Jata. The genuine champion Son-Jara directed the Mande persons of West Africa to beat the monarch Sumamura at a genuine assault in 1235. Son-Jara then based a domain that encompassed what today are the up to date countries of Mali, Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea. Son-Jara constructed a very rich domain because he conquered localities wealthy in gold. Son-Jara was renowned as a shrewd and just ruler, and is still a heroic number to his people. THE EPIC OF SON-JARA is the article of his ancestry, his birth, his labors with his half-brother, and his conquest of his foe Susa Mountain Sumamura, who was a pagan witch-doctor. (Biebuyck, 1999)

Conversely, Son-Jara was a Muslim - or much like Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon and early Christian custom, he integrated both the new belief of Islam and the customary African beliefs. It is intriguing to note epics like these that convey simultaneously two customs to conceive a heritage "version" of a belief imported from another region. THE EPIC OF SON-JARA finds the hero's father's family back to Bilal who was Muhammed's second alters and who conveyed Islam to sub-Saharan Africa. Thus Son-Jara inherits not only his father's authority characteristics, but furthermore the religious power of Islam. (Conrad, 2002)

Discussion

Son-Jara's mother was a mighty pagan sorceress who inherited her religious forces from Buffalo-Woman, so Son-Jara is bought into with large religious forces from both traditions. Also observe that there is a scheme of ruling and next that is alike to that of European feudalism. Loyalty is significant, but occasionally there are good causes to depart a deceitful ruler to become the knight/follower of an honorable ruler for example Son-Jara. THE EPIC OF SON-JARA was initially in the oral custom, much as THE SONG OF ROLAND was. (Bulman, 2004)

Actual in writing notes of Son-Jara's life designated day to the 15th 100 years in an account by an Arab historian. The anecdotes of the bards or griots kept Son-Jara's good status alive. These bards should have been certain thing like the Homeric bards who kept living the tales of the Trojan War. As in other heritage, a bard was adhered to the house of a localized monarch or aristocrat. The bards often were nearly like counselors to kings. The foremost function of the griot/bard was to maintain custom and to hold living the recollections of well renowned ancestors of the prince. The griots furthermore occasionally assisted as tutors for the juvenile princes of a house of royalty. (Biebuyck, 1999)

 

Griots Leading in a Mali Village

In Son-Jara's lifetime, he directed a very broad grassland district that extended from Western Africa opposite the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea on the eastern side. To the North lay the Sahara Desert; to the South was a lush forestland. This land was wealthy with animal and vegetable assets, as well as inorganic (gold). Therefore, it was a land challenged not only by ...