Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : LOS CAMINOS DE LUCERO
ºLucero Mundo: Nace de una figura de palo de 2 caras, o de una masa o piedra de 2 caras.
ºlucero Cuyo Malongo: Es un lucero diabolico que nace de una masa solamente de quillisos y cuyo humano. Este puede ser remolino, mayombe (volador), o rastrero que se monta en restos [...]
SOURCE : The Soul’s Journey via Reincarnation
The spirit world is vast and complicated… just as we die in this world and sink into the ground to be ‘reborn’ in the next, the same happens there. Spirits are believed to undergo a series of ‘deaths’ or transitions from one plane to the next and these transformations [...]
SOURCE : Activity: Doll Making and Resolving Conflict
Among the BaKongo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa, the figures may be made of wood, cloth and stones. Ancestor figures are never carved as realistic representations of specific individuals, but rather represent an idealized portrayal of the individual. The head of such [...]
SOURCE : Prenda de Lucero Mundo – Palo Monte Shrines and Ritual
The mpungu of the nganga does its bidding through a principal spirit of the dead (muerto or nfumbi), conjured from the cemetery and incorporated into the pot through the presence of human relics… This muerto is considered to be the “general” or “overseer” [...]
SOURCE : Santero Palero
Cuatrilla Congo Bokanyula Enganga Empanguis – (All the people in the religion and my brothers)
SOURCE : There are many Kongo worlds particularities of magico-religious beliefs among the Vili and Yombe of Congo-Brazzaville | Africa | Find Articles at BNET
On the basis of fieldwork and a critical examination of the sources, the article points out that such widely distributed terms of proto-Bantu origin as nkisi cannot be covered by a [...]
SOURCE : Nkisi
The main thing about the “ndokis” is that many “nsalan con el viento” – they work with the wind. It is for this reason that they have names such as “remolino”\Temporera\Impenso Malongo (whirlwind\tornado).
SOURCE : Palo Parents [Archive] – MySanteria Forums
Nganga Andile taught me that in the traditional ways the spirits were of 6 divisions, Bakinda, Bakisi Basi, Basimbi, Nkita, Bakullu, and Nkullu. While there were other spirits such as the Binkoko and dwarves, as well as entities such as the witches, the 6 aforementioned spirits were most [...]
padre / father – tata
pagar / pay – futeno
país = pais / country – nsí
pájaro = pajaro / bird – nuí, sunsun, sunso
palabra / word – dinga
palabras / words – mato
palacio / palace – munanso, munansó
palero / priest of the dead (congo priest) – tata nganga, padre nganga, tata nkisi
palma / palm – lala, mamba
palo [...]
machete / machete – mbele, mbeli, beleko, mbeleko, lumbendo
madera / wood – ntí, miti
madre / mother – yaya, yeyé, kuandi, wandi, nguá
madrina / godmother – yaya, sumbo, nsumbo, ngudi, tikantiká
magia / magic – kimpa
majá = maja / serpent – mboma, noka, bomboma, bumbema, kimbamba
mal / bad (malicious) – yilá, ñari, guame, nguame, kombo simba
malo / [...]
