Africanna Studies: Spiritualism & Religion
King Houegbadja during his reign ( 1645 - 1685 A.D. ) began the Atavistic Ceremony in commemorating the Royal Ancestors. Annually , the revelers honored the Royal ancestors . The ritual liturgy included the sacrifice of African slaves via aberrant slaughtering at the Whim of the King's callosity . Identify this tradition .
Cult of Kingship
The Spiritual Deification and religious observance has its genesis in Africa since time immemorial. Historically , the Yoruba devout worshippers observed these Monotheistic religions : Islam ☪️ & Yoruba religion. The latter conjured up imagery of Animism and traditional association with Yoruba songs , relayed histories , narratives , & cultural ideologies . Its religion has been practiced in the neoteric Southwestern Nigeria 🇳🇬 as well as in antecedent Yorubalands of Ogun , Osun , Oyon , Ekti , Kara , Lagos, Kofi , and Ondo. What is this Yoruba Religion?
Isese
A person chosen , named , or honored as a Special protector , guardian , and supporter .
Patron
There was an osmotic diffusion of Yoruba religion of Isese to the neoteric Benin 🇧🇯 & Togo 🇹🇬 from Nigeria 🇳🇬 . Its pragmatic liturgy is found in all of the New World religions : Candomble , Haitian Vodou , Santeria , Umbanda , and Trinidad's Orisha . Inferentially , these religions are the adaptation of Yoruban Isese . There are similitude of characteristics with the harbinger : its fusion of 2 or more inflectional forms , liturgical practices , and tenet of beliefs . Herein the blending of the Old & New World religion. What is this called ?
Syncretism as Syncretic Religion
Southern Africans always hold their First Fruits Festival around December and January in direct correspondence with the solar system : December Solstice. This nomenclature pertains to the Solstice occurring each 21 December as per the Gregorian Calendar. The Northern Hemisphere is Winter Solstice while the Southern Hemisphere is always the Summer Solstice. The Africans prefer the December Solstice as known by this nomenclature.
Southern Solstice
An event occurring when the Sun appears to reach its most Northerly or Southerly excursion as relative to the Celestial Equator on the Celestial Sphere . The Annual solstice is comprehensive of June 21 and December 21 reflecting the season of the year : Solstice and Equinoxes
Solstice
The African Harvest Festival is customarily practiced and observed in West Africa and Southeast Africa. The Africans say in Swahili , " Matunda ya Kwanza " meaning __?__ . The Nguni Southern Africans promulgate this __?__ Festival after the seasonal harvest of Agricultural produce. The Emce ( High Priest ) presides over the liturgical ceremony. Metaphorically, the devotees hand the 1st __?__ to God as a symbolic gratitude for its surfeit. Fill in the blanks .
First Fruit
A West African talisman , amulet , and enchanting spell ( trance ) as used in ceremonial ritual and liturgy . Its necromancy and thaumurgy as reinforced tools to conjure up magical healing . This tangible object is also worn as an hair adornment or as a corporeal accessory .
Juju
A Temple of gods as deified . A public building commemorating and dedicating to the Nation's Heroes or Heroines ; a Temple dedicated to all Gods as sound polytheism
Pantheon
A Doctrine identifying the Deity with the Cosmos , namely the Universe
Pantheism
A Salat ( Prayer ) Leader
Imam
The Government by the Imam
Imamate
A Ritual Recitation of verbal charms and grimoire inspired spell to produce magic effects ; a charm or spell used in ceremonial ritual recitation . The Latin etymology is the infinitive ' incantare' meaning to enchant . There are two adjectival forms : incantatory and incantational . What is the noun version ?
Incantation
A Traditional Religion of the 36th Century B.C. of the Ta Seti Sacral Chiefdom's liturgical practice . This Monotheistic religion is characterized as a worship of a single God within a polytheistic system . It was commonly practiced in this sacral chiefdom along the Upper and Lower Egypt 🇪🇬.
Henotheism
The Spiritual realm of Deification and Religious observance has its genesis to time immemorial .The Yoruba and neighboring interstices have historically and devoutly worship these two Monotheistic religions : Islam ☪️ & Yoruba Isese . The latter conjured up Animistic devotion andctraditional association with Yoruba songs , cultural ideologies , narratives , and African histories . Isese has been observed in Southwestern Nigeria 🇳🇬, and once in the antecedent Yorubaland of these African States : Ogun , Osun , Oyon , Ekti , Kware , Lagos , & Kogi . What is this passage about ?
Yoruba Deification
This Yoruba Religion had osmotic diffusion from Nigeria 🇳🇬 into Benin 🇧🇯 and Togo 🇹🇬. The religion's liturgy bears a striking similitude with these enumerated New World Syncretic Religion: Candomble , Haitian Voduo , Urbanda , Santeria , and Trinidadian 🇹🇹 Orisha . These Syncretic New World Religions are the adaptation of this Yoruba Religion.
Isese : its Legacy
__?__ ( Dwa ) was the Golden Stool . It served as a functional symbolism of Unity , Spirituality , and Kinship within statehood.
Sika Diwa
This is the transmigration and passing of the soul at death into another body especially of either Humans or animals. Its etymological derivative is Latin & Greeks ' Metempsychouthai ' meaning to undergo metempsychosis . Cognate its formula to Meta+ empsychos ( to animate ) and ending + psyche ( soul ) .
Metempsychosis
The Sandstone wall on the Kawa Temple featured King Aspelta making a foundational offering to Ram headed Amun Re who was escorted by Anukis . This symbolizes Morality , Conscience , and Justices as illustrated by a winged goddess with ostrich feathers 🪶 in her crown . The Pharaoh is the guardian and protector of its foundational offering .
Ma'at
This Egyptian Deity conceptualized and symbolically represents the aura of homeostasis , cosmic order , and divine equilibrium in Ancient Egypt 🇪🇬, "...that which is straight or Truth ..." This Deity is a genealogical offspring of Ra who rose from the water of Nun ( Chaos ) . Given her unique character of harmony and justice , she challenges the counteracted Chaos . Her husband ,Thoth , personified the God of Wisdom .
Egyptian Mythological Ma'at
This tangible object is a representational symbolism and emblem of Life . Characteristically , its morphological form bears a numinous Cross ✝️ and a Vertical arm .
Ankh