Encyclopedia of African Religion

590 Santeria A Santeria priest blows brandy over an Elegua (Yoruba deity) as part of a prediction ritual asking for the health o ...

out through mediumistic séances, and he preached a kind of Christian morality based on suffering, charity, and spiritual develop ...

draw a hard-and-fast line between either the human and the divine or the living and the Dead. Because Santeria is primarily conc ...

contacts in the United States, Santeria has made its way back into the Caribbean to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Cuba ...

ancestral custom recognizes the roots of the Sara. The moral authority of the Sara people is tied up in the rituals of passage o ...

its own leader and council. However, above the villages and the lo presides the Granman. The Granman is regarded as the king of ...

buried in extended positions during the time of Khufu and Sneferu in the 4th dynasty, which was approximately 2494 BC. Later in ...

SECLUSION Seclusion is the separation of a person from a larger community to ritually celebrate the transition or passage from o ...

chaos and order in the rites that mark birth and death. For example, a Zulu woman, in the com- pany of married women, is require ...

Seclusion 599 to be observed by the girls at puberty among old communities of Akamba, Baganda, Zulu, Tanganyika, Nyanja-speaking ...

Related to annual hegemonic festivals is the seclusion of the priest, priestess, or votary maid who bears the seal of the pact b ...

Chidester, D. (1992).Religions of South Africa. London, New York: Routledge. Douglas, M. (2000).Purity and Danger:An Analysis of ...

602 Sekhmet Lion-headed Sekhmet, goddess of war. Statue from the temple of Mut, wife of god Amun (Amen) ofThebes.The temple was ...

woman with the head of a lioness “whose back was the color of blood with fire emanating from her mane and eyes.” Her fiery body ...

604 Senufo The double-headed Wambele masks appear at Senufo funeral rituals.They incorporate features borrowed from many creatur ...

“sky” or “light,” have been consecrated as guardian spirits who intercede to Kòlotyöö on behalf of ter- restrial beings. In addi ...

made pilgrimages to Africa to worship and seek healing at the Seraphim temple in Alexandria. Kemetians were often treated as for ...

everything in the universe, but all of the ordinary things that have to do with daily life, relationships, land disputes, war, a ...

some African people, the serpent is associated with lunar elements as it manifests cosmic powers. The Ngala of central Congo hol ...

cord” associated with astronomical and astrological measurements for the location of temples. The com- missioning pharaoh says, ...