About 74,000 years ago, mourners in South Africa buried an infant with a Conus shell in a cave 82 km from the shore. “In the Kongo-speaking region of central Africa, people believed that shells formed the boundaries of the dead’s underwater realm; lining a grave with shells ensured a spirit’s safe passage to this aqueous underworld.”

Read more: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-symbolic-seashell/

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To compensate for the insult, Kapembwa “ceded the lake fish to the Lungu people and persuaded his brother-in-law, Chisya, a spirit of Polombwe, to cause rain so that they could cultivate crops.” (“Myths, Gender, Birds, Beads: A Reading Of Iron Age Hill Sites In Interior Southern Africa” by Edwin N. Wilmsen)

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Kapembwa, a creator spirit (also a lake deity) whose shrine is on a cliff overlooking the southwestern shore of Lake Tanganyika in Zambia, married Mangala, a young woman. One day, his first wife, who was a spirit, failed to carry out his wishes. After a falling-out with Mangala, she tore up the latter’s crown of feathers and threw the pieces into the bush before running away. She never returned.

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Iya Ehime Ora, an Ifá and Òrìṣà Priestess, stated that if you come across a homeless man wearing red and black, and he asks you for money, give him. He’s Èṣù (Exu or Eleggua in the Diaspora), the opener and closer of all roads and the enforcer of law and justice, in disguise. He wants to bless you and/or save you from something.

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Iya Ehime Ora, an Ifá & Òrìṣà Priestess, stated that if you come across a homeless man wearing red and black, and he asks you for money, give him. He’s Èṣù (Exu or Eleggua in the Diaspora), the opener and closer of all roads and enforcer of law and justice, in disguise. He wants to bless you and/or save you from something.

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