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Flying over dikenga: The circle of new life-gctid85857

Started by Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé, Jun 30, 2013, 08:53 AM

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Apr 08, 2015, 12:32 AM #15


 Plate 25: Left: Diviner Sosonbo from Manuel Jordan personal collection, 1992.
Plate 26. Right: flagpole shrine. After Boris Wastiau, 1999.
Apr 08, 2015, 09:04 AM #16
Why am I not seeing any of these plates?

To Be AnKmtyw Woman is to:


- be life affirming


- be in partnership with an Kmtyw man


- be a political organizer


- function as part of a collective


- exert influence


- speak for the Ancestors


- be an advocate for Kmt


- be a mother who does whatever is necessary to protect her child


- teach


- be a healer


- represent the continuity of Kmtyw people


- represent the stability of the Kmtyw family


- maintain and pass on Kmtyw culture


- organize and direct the Kmtyw market, enabling our people to understand thespirit of economic exchange and distribution of our resources


- be a scientist of the sacred


- be an intellectual


- be Divine


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Apr 08, 2015, 08:56 PM #17


 Plate 27. Firma for the mpungu (spirit) Kalunga. From Osvaldo Fresneda, 1988.
Apr 08, 2015, 09:00 PM #18


 Plates 28-30. Three examples of the Firma representing Lucero. From Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Personal Collection.
Apr 08, 2015, 09:08 PM #19
QuoteKala Kambon;148307 wrote: Why am I not seeing any of these plates?
I don't know I think others can see them.
Can you see the other ones I posted after you asked that question ?
Apr 09, 2015, 12:23 AM #20


 Plate 31. Vèvè for the Loa Legba. After Milo Rigaud, 1974.
Apr 09, 2015, 12:30 AM #21


Plate 32. Vèvè for the Loa Legba. Legba as a space marker represents the crossroad, one of the preferential locations of the deity in Vodun religious tradition. After Milo Rigaud, 1974.
Apr 09, 2015, 12:44 AM #22


Plate 33. Ponto Riscado (Drawn point) Rei de Congo (King of Kongo). The graphic writing has been used to indicate the Kongo origin of Umbanda religious tradition. After Robert Farris Thompson, 1991.
Apr 09, 2015, 12:48 AM #23


 Plate 34. Ponto Riscado Vovó Bahiana Congo (The Kongo grandmother). After N.A. Molina.
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