IntroductionThe beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse, including various ethnic religions. Generally, these traditions are oral rather than scriptural and are passed down from one generation to another through folk tales, songs, and festivals, and include beliefs in spirits and higher and lower gods, sometimes including a supreme being, as well as the veneration of the dead, and use of magic and traditional African medicine. Most religions can be described as animistic with various polytheistic and pantheistic aspects. The role of humanity is generally seen as one of harmonizing nature with the supernatural. (Full article...) Selected articleKhonvoum is the supreme god and creator of in the mythology of the Bambuti Pygmy people of central Africa. He is the 'great hunter', god of the hunt, and carries a bow made of two snakes which appears to mortals as a rainbow. Selected imagesFestivalsThere are several religious festivals found in the various Traditional African religions. Some of these are listed below next to their corresponding religion :
Selected biographyLamane Jegan Joof (or Lamane Djigan Diouf), was a Serer lamane who according to Serer tradition founded the Serer village of Tukar now part of present-day Senegal. The Raan festival (a major event in the Serer religious calendar) takes place each year at Tukar, two weeks after the appearance of the new moon in April. Selected quote
Roger S. Gottlieb Source: Gottlieb, Roger S., The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Oxford University Press (2006), p. 261, ISBN 9780199727698 [1]
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