Encyclopedia of African Religion

Tree of Nyame Symbol of the presence of Nyame and Nyame’s protection “Nyame Nti, menwe wura.” Since God exists, I will not feed ...

Awusi, corresponding to the English Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. However, it is in Nyame’ ...

Africism: A Geo-Ontological Approach For many years, the religious and thought system of Africa was perceived through the highly ...

Suprahuman Beings Suprahuman beings are spiritual inhabitants of the spirit world. Some of them are deities and/or secondary god ...

University of Ibadan in Nigeria, the University of Legon in Ghana, and the University of Makerere in Uganda. Since then, there h ...

Book of Vindicationsays, “For you, a ladder to the heavens shall be assembled and Nut [Heaven personified] shall extend her hand ...

And no fault has been found in him.” InThe Book of the Dead, the Great Nine Divinities respond by saying, “What you have said is ...

on the willingness to participate, rather than descent lineage. Young people are not normally accepted into the age group organi ...

or too much water, insects, or animals. Harvest rituals give thanks for the crop and are the most festive occasions. All of the ...

holiday in which the King bites and spits out spe- cific plants and fruits of the first harvest. This sig- nifies that it is now ...

negligent with libations and offerings, they will tounen men vid, come back empty handed and encounter turbulent seas among othe ...

Lwa and men by female Lwa, blurring gender boundaries, as these devotees,chwalof the Lwa, take on these different gender and sex ...

becomes by virtue of this pervasive emphasis on the fullness of the air with spiritual energies is some- thing more than a physi ...

AKAMBA Akamba are a Kenyan people who speak ki- kamba and are mostly found in the Central Eastern part of the country (Kitui, Ma ...

Cultural Characteristics Lingusitically, the collective termAkanrefers to a group of languages belonging to the Kwa subfam- ily ...

The old woman, determined to find a way to reach Nyame and bring him back, instructed her children to pile all of the mortars th ...

When a person falls ill, Akan concern themselves not only with the physical manifestations of the illness, but the spiritual asp ...

AKHENATEN Akhenaten (1353–1336 BC), whose name means “he who praises Aten,” was an 18th dynasty king and philosopher who changed ...

28 Akhenaten Circa 1350 BC, King Akhenaten and his Queen Nefertiti worship Aten or Aton, the Sun God. Originally named Amenhotep ...

The Ahmosian Family Amenhotep IV would mark out his territory in the history of the period as if he knew precisely what he had t ...