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    African divination is divination practiced by cultures of Africa. Divination is an attempt to form, and possess, an understanding of reality in the present...
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    traditional African medicine. Fortune-telling, on the other hand, is a more everyday practice for personal purposes. Particular divination methods vary...
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    across Africa, though mostly concentrated in different areas. They have replaced indigenous African religions but are often adapted to African cultural...
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    Ifá (redirect from Ifa divination)
    Ifá is a divination system originating among the Yoruba people of West Africa. It plays an important role in Yoruba religion and certain African diasporic...
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    spiritual health. African religious traditions in the Americas can vary. They can have non-prominent African roots or can be almost wholly African in nature,...
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    Geomancy translates literally to "earth divination," and the term was originally used to mean methods of divination that interpret geographic features, markings...
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    Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial...
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    African religion have survived and evolved into the current forms of religions with similar names that are found in the New World among the African diaspora...
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  • African spirits as well as deities found within the traditional African religions. It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African...
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  • best-documented in West Africa as well as in Afro-American religions, such as Santería, Candomblé, and Umbanda, cowrie-shell divination has also been recorded...
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  • Mesopotamian divination was divination within the Mesopotamian period. Perceptual elements utilized in the practice of a divinatory technique included...
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    Hoodoo (spirituality) (category African-American cultural history)
    Old African American Hoodoo system. University of Illinois Press. pp. 22, 27, 92. ISBN 9780252094460. Peek, Philip M. (1991). African Divination Systems:...
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    Odinala (category Traditional African religions)
    spirit divination and medicine in an African society. Fourth Dimension Publishing. p. 108. ISBN 9789781563997. Peek, Philip M. (1991). African Divination Systems:...
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  • Encyclopedia of African Religion, Volume 1, SAGE (2009), p. 428, ISBN 9781412936361 (retrieved March 18, 2020) [4] Harold Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology...
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    Bandiagara, Mali : the Dogon Fish Festival African worlds : studies in the cosmological ideas and social values of African peoples Photos of Dogon Country Pictures...
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  • Juju (category Traditional African religions)
    practice in West Africa by the people of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Cameroon. The term has been applied to traditional African religions, incorporating...
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    Similar to other traditional religions of West and Central Africa such as West African Vodun, Yoruba religion, or Odinani, Akan cosmology consists of...
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    throughout Africa. Africa portal Arts portal Society portal African philosophy Africana philosophy African divination History of Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Culture...
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  • shells used for divination. It is widely known in South Africa where traditional healers, especially of the Bantu people for divination. Mokgale Makgopa...
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  • Dinka religion (category Animism in Africa)
    assumption that spirits may strike the killer. Traditional African religion portal Africa portal Religion portal As in other cultures, the Dinka practice...
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  • Dahomean religion (category Traditional African religions)
    Vodou and other African diasporic religions. West African Vodun Traditional African religion portal Akyeampong, Emmanuel (2014). Africa's Development in...
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    Dahomey (category Sacred sites in traditional African religions)
    The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed...
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    Nommo (category West African legendary creatures)
    2017, the African Speculative Fiction Society has given out a prize called the Nommo Award to science fiction and fantasy writing from the African continent...
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  • "AFRICA | 101 Last Tribes - Lotuko people". "Lotuko (Otuho)". gurtong.net. Retrieved 3 Jan 2018. [dead link] Lynch, Patricia Ann (2004). African Mythology...
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    "LacusCurtius • Greek and Roman Divination (Smith's Dictionary, 1875)". uchicago.edu. Peek, P.M. African Divination Systems: Ways of Knowing. page 2...
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    The Legends of Africa reflect a wide-ranging series of kings, queens, chiefs and other leaders from across the African continent including Mali, Benin...
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  • Ngai (category African gods)
    LTD, (1938), [in] South African History Online, pp. 22–23, 41, 233-234, [8] (Retrieved 5 April 2019) Ben-Jochannan, Yosef, African Origins of the Major "Western...
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    Nggàm (category Divination)
    invites audiences to learn about the practice. African divination Zeitlyn, David. 1987. Mambila Divination. Cambridge Anthropology 12 (1):21-51. NB: this...
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  • Waaqeffanna (category Traditional African religions)
    intestines for meaning. Traditional African religion portal Somali mythology De Salviac, Martial.  An Ancient People: Great African Nation: the Oromo. Translation...
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  • messages across Africa and Asia. Sets of binary combinations similar to the I Ching have also been used in traditional African divination systems such as...
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