Encyclopedia of African Religion

Among the Yoruba and Fon, Olokun appears as female as well as male, whereas among the Bini, Olokun appears solely as male. In mo ...

mineral wealth and the sea gate to orun or Heaven. These attributes signify Olokun’s role as the source of all waterways, such a ...

Unlike the Ashanti of Ghana and Kikuyu of Kenya, the Yoruba do not have temples, priests, andaltarsforOlorun,butneverthelessGodi ...

African ontology. Every being is characterized by lifeanddynamism.Beingisnotastaticessence.The African notion of vital force tra ...

See alsoAnkh; Ka; Nkwa Further Readings Diop, B., Mercier, R., Battestini, M., & Simon, S. (1965).Birago Diop, écrivain séné ...

Opening of the Mouth Ceremony 495 Right section of the wall painting on the north wall of the burial chamber of PharaohTutankham ...

Such an elaborate ritual would necessarily includelibations,cleansingoftheenvirons,purifi- cation of the statue, anointing with ...

they must establish there an oracle of Jupiter. The other dove flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon in the Libyan Oasis and deliv ...

where answers are supposed to be given by any of the divinities to those who have consulted them regardingtheirpast,present,orfu ...

Further Readings Asante, M. K. (1998).The Afrocentric Idea(Rev. & exp. 2nd ed.). Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Dasy ...

designedtoelevateandtransformsociety.InAfrica and the diaspora, past and present, the spoken Word dominates communication cultur ...

ORIGIN OF RELIGION Religion does not appear as a separate word in Africa. In fact, there are no words in African lan- guages tha ...

concludedthatthethirdandlaststageinhumans’ development is the age of science. In African religion, some rituals follow certain s ...

primal society. Third, it is compulsory; hardly anyone can default in participating in the collec- tive religious rites. Religio ...

of a divine power to command and make things happen, with a natural force, a deified ancestor, and an object that witnesses and ...

the white-feathered bird called eiye ororo, the symbolofthemindthatGodputsintotheheadat birth. The ile ori seems to say: A good ...

These specific forces of nature mentioned are part of the orisha because the cult of the orisha directs itself toward them. The ...

accompany Orisha Nla wherever he went in his workoforganizingthewastelandintoanordered world. The task was difficult because to ...

task of preparing the site at Ilé-Ifè for human life. Ilé-Ifè is also considered the home of Orunmila and the center of Yoruba s ...

Abimbola, W. (1975).Sixteen Great Poems of Ifa. Paris: UNESCO. Abimbola, W. (1997).Ifa:An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpus. New ...