Encyclopedia of African Religion

Festivals and celebrations are regularly held for the Orishas in Yoruba. A series of rituals occur during these festivals and ce ...

past those times. Of course, there are exceptions, most often if they must be outside at those times for their jobs. The Iyawo c ...

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JOK (A CHOLI) Jok is a conceptth at derivesfromthe Lan go peo pl e of EastAfr ica. The coreof the relig io n of the Lango is Jok ...

354 Jola JOLA The Jola, Dyola, Diola, or Yola (people) reside primarily on the Atlantic coast between the south- ern banks of th ...

major role in the initiation preparatory process on the village level; for example, mothers prepare food and compose songs for t ...

For instance, one may be offered spiritually poisoned food or drinks, which will inevitably bring about disruption, trauma, or e ...

The principle of social justice compels humans to behave so that each works in defense of all and all work in defense of each. T ...

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KA Inancie nt Egypt,thewordka wasusedtomean thelifeenergyin humans an d deities.Theword wasus edinmanydifferentcontexts,butalway ...

360 KabreofTogo enter the temple with the crowd outside the sanc- tuary, and when he returned to them he would have merged with ...

of males and females, and males sometimes fulfill “female” roles just as females may take on “male” roles. The individual’s perf ...

short curved horns of the Ovis Platyra ram (the Amen ram) and may thus have two sets of horns atop his head. He was also called ...

KHONSU The ancient African lunar deity, Khonsu, was the divine child of Amen-Ra and Mut during the new kingdom. He was the son o ...

migration from the East to the South. Of course, the Portuguese came to Angola as traders, mission- aries, and conquerors during ...

There continues to be a debate among certain African intellectuals, political theorists, and lead- ers about the contemporary re ...

Other scholars believed that the ideological sources of kingship seemed to be rooted in African traditions of the greatest antiq ...

Laine, D. (1991).African Kings. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. Morenz, S. (1973).Egyptian Religion. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Universi ...

FurtherReadings Asante, M. K. (2007).The History of Africa:The Quest for Eternal Truth. London: Routledge. Scheub, H. (2000).A D ...

Other so-called Kirdi groups in northern Cameroon, such as the Mafa, Mofu, or Meri, kept humpless cattle in the past. These anim ...