BEA JOY LORRAINE ARCENIO

IV-9 BSE HISTORY

PHILIPPINE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

ODINANI

SERER

DOGON

ODINANI

• traditional religious practices and cultural beliefs of the Igbo people of southern Nigeria.

• “gboo”, Sudan• “onigbo“,Igala

“oni”,

CHI

CHINEKE

EKE

Divine masculineforce

Creative feminineforce

CHUKWU

YAMS

NEW YAM FESTIVAL/ IWA JI

CHUKWU

Ala

Chi

ndichie

ndi mmuo/ invisible

beings

mmuo

OSISI

ANU

URO

ndi mmadu/ visible beings

TRADITIONAL FAMILY CEREMONIES

• Birth, marriage and burial are considered the three most important family events

• traditional marriage (Igbankwu)• bride’s price settlement (Ika-

Akalika)

REINCARNATION

• ilo-uwa• People are believed to

reincarnate into families that they were part of while alive.

OGBANJE

• An ogbanje is a reincarnating evil spirit that would deliberately plague a family with misfortune.

• Iyi-uwa, which they have dug somewhere secret, would ensure the ogbanje would never plague the family with misfortune again

DIBIA

Dibia are mediatorsbetween the humanworld and the spiritworld and act ashealers, scribes,teachers, diviners andadvisors of people inthe community.

Masquerades and Festivals

• Masquerades (Mmanwu)• colourful robes and masks made of wood

or fabric.• The identity of the masquerade is a well-

kept secret.

CREATION MYTH

For a long time things workedvery well in heaven, all of theGods and Goddesses lived inone place.

individualistic, and therefore very independent

Jealousy and greedy

WHO HAD MORE

AUTHORITY?

Chineke came up with a master

plan

Heaven was divided into equal parts.

HOLY HOMESTEAD

God IGWE and the Goddess ALA, whose domain consisted of

the earth and sky

ALA and IGWE created 8 peopleSticks from OfoTree, Chalk, Clay

• Sex-act and birth: (nine months)• Babyhood: (Birth to about three years of age)• Childhood: (Three years to twelve)• Adulthood: (developed between the ages of

thirteen and twenty)• Parenthood: (twenty to forty year age group)• Grandparenthood: (Forty to sixty years)• Great grandparenthood and Ancestor- hood:

(Sixty years to forever after death).

Why there are differences in human skin color?

SOURCES:

• http://www.africanbelief.com/• https://www.britannica.com/topic/African-

religions• http://www.nairaland.com/499496/origin-

igbo• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Igbo• http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Igbo.as

px• http://www.igboguide.org/HT-chapter11.htm• http://www.sankofavibeleague.com/2014/07

/brief-introduction-to-omenala-odinani.htm

SERER

group of more than one million people of western Senegal and The Gambia

SABAR

• Fangool• Tiurakh• Takhar

ROOG

• spiritual elders and custodians ofindigenous knowledge who have thepower and knowledge to organizetheir thoughts into one cohesive unit.

• Rog is inaccessible except by Saltigue.

SALTIGUE

• Traditional followers of Serer faith aregoverned by a code of honor called Gorie.

• Serer people hold each other accountablefor immoral actions and justice forbreaking societal rules is adverse.

•Adultery•murder

CREATION STORY

1•AIR, EARTH, WATER

2•PRIMORDIAL TREES

3

•ANIMAL WORLD

•HUMAN COUPLE

SOURCES:

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Serer

• http://www.seereer.org/seereer-religion

• http://www.africanbelief.com/• http://www.liquisearch.com/what_i

s_serer_religion• http://www.revolvy.com/main/ind

ex.php?s=Serer%20religion

DOGON

• The Dogons are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of the country of Mali.

• best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture.

• Highest in the order of supernatural being is Amma

• The Dogon also believe in various malevolent and benevolent spirits who populate the trees, and uninhabited places.

• Nommo• Lebe• Yurugu

• A major part of Dogon religious worship is the cult of the masks, called Awa

• The olubaru are initiated in a Sigi ceremony, which is celebrated only once every sixty years

• during the preparation for a damafestival,

SIGUI AND DAMAS FESTIVAL

• The Hogon is the spiritual leader of the village.

• A virgin who has not yet had her period takes care of him, cleans the house and prepares his meals.

HOGON

• primarily sculpture.• around religious values, ideals, and

freedoms• not made to be seen publicly, and are

commonly hidden from the public eyewithin the houses offamilies, sanctuaries, or kept with theHogon

DOGON ART

• http://www.everyculture.com/Africa-Middle-East/Dogon-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html

• http://www.africanbelief.com/• https://www.britannica.com/topic/

African-religions• www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_dog

on03.htm

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