As already explained, the Kalanga verb KU TSHA means TO DIG. From the verb KU TSHA, following Kalanga grammar, one arrives at the noun LUTSHI. It seems quite strange that the object we Kalangas call LUTSHI could have anything to do with digging. I don't know what LUTSHI is called in English, but I will try my best to describe it.
If you peel the bark off some species of tree, all the way to the wood core, and then from the bark, you peel off the outer hard brittle part, the soft inner bark remaining is called LUTSHI. It is flexible and two or more such strands can be twisted (twined) together to make rope. This activity is called KU KOSHA LUTSHI. This blog has already shown that the human work-group that was responsible for making such ropes was the Cushites (Ba-Kosha). The Cushites are of course the ancestors of the Lemba/Jews.
And so grammatically, LUTSHI means "digging tool". But we don't really know if its application by the Anunnaki was purely as a lifting rope, or there was some other digging technology that utilised LUTSHI in some hi-tech fashion. What we do know is that LUTSHI was widely used by the Anunnaki in Lalibela Ethiopia, where Ba-KOSHA (Cushites) flourished.
We have already identified a Southern African group, Ba-KHURUTSHE, as physically resembling Ethiopians. We know through oral history that Bakhurutshe left Southern Africa to accompany their queen who was going to get married in KA MABUNDE (Egypt?) where she lived, died and is buried. Ba-Khurutshe and Ba-Hurutshe are essentially the same group of people, but when the Bakhurutshe left for North Africa, the Ba-Hurutshe remained in Southern Africa. Consequently, the "Ethiopian" look is much more prevalent among the Ba-khurutshe than the Ba-Hurutshe.
There is a strong likelyhood that Bakhurutshe/Bahurutshe, as a human workgroup were therefore, BA-KULUTSHI, meaning those who fetch/make LUTSHI. This would really explain the close affinity that the Bakhurutshe have towards the Baperi/Lemba/Jews. The BaKhurutshe would have been fetching/making lutshe, while the Cushites/Bakosha/Jews would have been twining that LUTSHI into ropes used in the construction of Lalibela.
But there is another possibility, which though slightly different, nevertheless accomodates the affinity between Bakhurutshe and Baperi/Jews. It may even explain why the Bakhurutshe are considered by most human work-groups in Southern Africa, to be the most senior national grouping.
The possibility I am referring to is this: BA-KULU-TSHI could mean "the supervisors during digging". If the real reason for BaKhurutshe leaving for Ethiopia, was to be trained in underground digging operations at Lalibela, in preparation for underground mining operations in Francistown/Nyangabwe on their return, then the possibility of a supervisory role in their name assumes great importance.
But there is a problem - Makulukusa was not a Khurutshe but a HUMBE. Makulu-kusa was, as the name suggests, supervisor of "burning". In modern language we would call him "blasting supervisor". I will delve into the HUMBE in a later post; hopefully I will have figured out how to present a known Anunnaki song to the reader, a song whose meaning has only just become clear to me.
The safe conclusion we can draw about the BaKhurutshe/BaHurutshe is that they were the work-group responsible for fetching/manufacturing LUTSHI.
