Encyclopedia of African Religion

metaphors. The Baluba liken God to the wind (Leza udi bwa luvula). The metaphor of seeing and hearing is often used to explain G ...

presides over the universe on the particular day of their birth. Thus, children born on Sunday have the gift of leadership and a ...

religion” the alleged godless barbarians, and a world that scoffs at respect for other religions as an impious and false relativ ...

and sisters. The revolutionary power of such a vision of God for local tyrannies, patriarchy, world politics, and a global marke ...

goddess who captured the imagination of initiates from Africa and beyond was Isis (Auset). As the wife of Ausar and the mother o ...

Among the Zulu,Mbaba Mwana Waresa(Lady of the Rainbow) has a story of searching for her divine spouse. The Zulu also revere Inko ...

child, once the reincarnated ancestor has been iden- tified, will receive the name of that ancestor. As in many other African co ...

all night long and, like most Vodu ceremonies, will involve intense drumming, singing, and dancing. The purpose of reclaiming th ...

Mountains of Floods. Ritual ceremonies for good rains and good harvests are held there regularly by the people of Zimbabwe and t ...

district, the town of Gulu. It is one of the historical homelands of the Acholi ethnic group. The district has been a central po ...

Further Readings Owuor, O. B., Oketch-Rabah, H., & Kokwaro, J. O. (2006, December). Reinventing Therapo-Spiritual Fellowship ...

Further Readings Asante, M. K., & Nwadiora, E. (2007).Spear Masters: An Introduction to African Religion. Lanham, MD: Univer ...

worldview that are nowadays deeply imbricated in African cultures, where the concept of a Supreme God has become generally accep ...

303 H HAPI Hap i is the neterof the inundation of the Nile. Gene rall y speaking,the Nilewas not cons ide re d a ne te r am ong ...

304 Harvest Further Readings Bunson, M. (1991).The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. New York: Facts on File. HARVEST In African ag ...

The Avatime people of Ghana pay even greater attention to the presowing period and engage in many rituals whose purpose is to ap ...

Further Readings Brydon, L. (1990). Putting the World in Order in Avatime, Ghana. In A. Jacobson-Widding & W. van Beek (Eds. ...

Cosmological Hathor Hathor is considered the foremost among the female neters and the provider of food for the dead in Tuat, the ...

HAYA The Haya (also known as Ekihaya, Ruhaya, Ziba, and Kihaya) constitute one of the dominant ethnic and linguistic groups in T ...

Weiss, B. (1996).The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World:Consumption,Commoditization,and Everyday Practice. Durham, NC: ...