Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : Congo basket divination One of the best known types of divination practiced by Chokwe, Lunda, Lwena/Luvale, Luchazi and others, includes the use of a basket containing numerous symbolic objects, called tupele… Such a divination basket is called ngombo ya kusekula or ya chisuka, and the tupele comprise both natural items, such as rocks, [...]
SOURCE : DAILY NATION - OBBO: An African president wages the strangest of wars It is the witchcraft season in Africa. Over the weekend, there was a report on CNN about some frightening chaps in Burundi who had been arrested for the murder of their fellow citizens with albinism. They, like others in the Democratic Republic [...]
Congo Culture: Fetisheurs – Wanderlust and Lipstick In the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, you find the word “ndoki” attached to a river in the north and to two national parks – Nouable-Ndoki and Dzanga-Ndoki. In the Lingala language “ndoki” means sorcerer. The stories of witchcraft I enjoy best are about the [...]
SOURCE : Myths and Legends of the Bantu: Chapter XVI: Doctors, Prophets, and Witches The Mayombe, in French Congo, have a belief in some gruesome beings which recall the above descriptions: they are small in stature, have legs cut off at the knee, high shoulders, and one remarkably long finger-nail; their skin is jet-black, and [...]
SOURCE : CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congo The irreligion and ignorance of the Congolese have often been exaggerated and misrepresented. They are not so debased as many pretend. They recognize a supreme God, Creator of all things, but they seem very largely to ignore His immediate Providence and His interventions in the affairs of this world. They [...]
SOURCE : From myth to reality – meet the chimps who eat lions | Mail Online The giant lion-eating ape of the Congo, known ‘officially’ as the Bili or Bondo Mystery Ape, is one of those creatures that for decades has sat on the knife-edge that divides myth and scientific respectability. Sceptics say giant, lion-eating [...]
SOURCE : The Werewolf Page Myths – Were-Jackals of the Congo In the 1930′s perched hidden in a tree an English physician witnessed a very special ceremony. It started with the beating of drums, then the nyanga (witch doctor), covered in the skin of a jackal, jumped into the center of the crowd and began [...]
SOURCE : TrueAuthority.com – Cryptozoology – Mokele-mbembe In 1913, a German explorer reported stories of, what the natives called, “Mokele-mbembe,” which he had heard while in the Congo. Hearing the reports, a few scientists noticed that the descriptions of the creatures made them sound much like sauropod dinosaurs. Sauropods were the giants of the dinosaurs [...]
(Kongo) – I’ve read various definitions for this word, including “governor” and “mystery”; Mayombe is also a region in the Congo (e.g., the Mayombe rainforest). According to my padrino, mayombe means “talking” or “singing”; thus, Palo Mayombe is the art communicating with and commanding the spirits of nature and the dead. Palo Mayombe is one [...]
yemaya (la virgen de regla) / yemaya, congo equal – baluande, balunga, kalunga, madre agua yerba / plants – nfita, matiti, vititi yerbas / herbs – musanga
