Encyclopedia of African Religion

One day while hunting, Tauetona came upon some mysterious footprints that looked somewhat like his own, but they were much small ...

Memphite theological system, one sees Ptah “on the great seat” as the one from whom all gods are cre- ated, including Tefnut. In ...

among the people. The Teke engage in the regular use of festivals and rites to honor the ancestors who were hunters, farmers, or ...

out or absorb the Tellem into their social and political systems. Although the Tellem do not exist as a separate culture and the ...

thus completing their socialization and ensuring social order and stability, as Temne traditions are respected and reinforced. D ...

Temples, Concept in Ancient Times 655 Huge Colossus of Memnon, which stood at the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple. Source ...

Years later, the people replaced the wooden shrine with a more substantial one that reflected the idea of permanence. Thus, the ...

Temples, Concept in Ancient Times 657 The Karnak Temple is the largest religious site in Africa. Source: Molefi Kete Asante. ...

gateways to mortuary chapels. Some of these struc- tures were quite complex, having been added to for generations by various kin ...

TEMPLES,USES ANDTYPES Traditional African religious temples are places where Heaven, Earth, and underworld converge. For example ...

The temple was the body of God; thus, to be in the temple was to experience the divine. Accordingly, they were a sacred location ...

Thoth 661 Replica of antiquity wall engraving from ancient Egypt—The god Thoth(Tehuti). Source: iStockphoto. ...

because they were mentioned in the pyramid texts from the 5th dynasty. There is a festival carrying his name celebrated on the 2 ...

and the one with the highest tone. These patterns are almost identical in other contemporary mani- festations of the African spi ...

claimed that these may be used as charms or votive objects by Sango worshippers. Deji Ayegboyin and S.K.Olajide SeealsoShango Fu ...

It states that African time has two dimensions: a dynamic present (sasa) and an ever-increasing past (zamani), meaning that hist ...

kakaki instrument was used to announce important community events. Among the Tiv, the kakaki was used to announce a birth, a mar ...

Although the termtotemoriginates in the language of the Ojibwa ethnic group of Native Americans, because there is a similar resp ...

These concepts are most clearly expressed by the relational dynamics between Africans and their ancestors, as well as with the d ...

human person. Transcendence occurs when a part of the spiritual components is displaced and replaced by an ancestral spirit or b ...