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Sacrifice and Social Structure among the Kuranko
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Sacrifice and DivinationThe Kuranko term for sacrifice issarake(from the Arabicsadaqa). Any gift, offering or material object over which invocations to spirits are made is a sacrifice.Sarakethus includes offerings made to the three major categories of spirit: (1)AlaorAltala(God), (2)BəmbanuorFɔl' mɔryonu(‘Ancestors’ and ‘First/original people’ respectively), (3)Njεnnenu(Spirits of the wild or djinn). Sacrifice also includes material objects (medicines and fetishes) which are prayed over.
Title: Sacrifice and Social Structure among the Kuranko
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Sacrifice and DivinationThe Kuranko term for sacrifice issarake(from the Arabicsadaqa).
Any gift, offering or material object over which invocations to spirits are made is a sacrifice.
Sarakethus includes offerings made to the three major categories of spirit: (1)AlaorAltala(God), (2)BəmbanuorFɔl' mɔryonu(‘Ancestors’ and ‘First/original people’ respectively), (3)Njεnnenu(Spirits of the wild or djinn).
Sacrifice also includes material objects (medicines and fetishes) which are prayed over.
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