Two men hold this chair by its legs before an altar, while the incense is being burned, and the supernatural agent is asked to descend into the chair. One tarot card collector claimed to have accumulated more than 1,500 Japan-made decks of tarot cards. Leoni, F, C Gruber, and P Lory. Rohsenow, Hill Gates, and David K. Jordan. [23], Dream interpretation, or oneiromancy (‘ilm ta’bir al-ru’ya), is more specific to Islam than other divinatory science, largely because of the Qur’an’s emphasis on the predictive dreams of Abraham, Yusuf, and Muhammad. “Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural.” Edited by F Leoni. This list is limited to a few well-known traditions. There are generally no prohibitions against the practice. pp 26. It was upheld by prophetic tradition and relied almost exclusively on text, specifically the Qur’an (which carried a table for guidance) and poetry, as a development of bibliomancy. If both fall flat side up or both fall rounded side up, that can be taken as a failure of the deity to agree. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. pp 10, 16-17. [12] Fortune-telling and other forms of divination were widespread through the Middle Ages. pp 26-27. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. [6][1] The role of humanity is generally seen as one of harmonizing nature with the supernatural. [40] With a long farming tradition, the Serer high priests and priestesses (Saltigue) deliver yearly sermons at the Xooy Ceremony (divination ceremony) in Fatick before Yoonir's phase in order to predict winter months and enable farmers to start planting.[41]. [35], Traditional African religions generally believe in an afterlife, one or more Spirit worlds, and Ancestor worship is an important basic concept in mostly all African religions. If the seer gave consistent answers, the advice was considered valid. The most famous of these is the boy king Tutankhamun’s gold funerary mask, which was placed on his mummy and weighed a whopping 22.5 pounds (10 kilos). Various methods exist for divining personality type. Cards are shuffled and cut into piles then used to forecast the future, for spiritual reflection, or as a tool for self-understanding. Diverse traditional beliefs and practices of African people, Encyclopedia of African Religion (Sage, 2009). Leoni, F, C Gruber, and P Lory. “Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural.” Edited by F Leoni. There are also religions with a single Supreme being (Chukwu, Nyame, Olodumare, Ngai, Roog, etc.). "Religions of South Africa" pp. Feb 22, 2014 - Explore Claudine Brown's board "African Symbols", followed by 180 people on Pinterest. Most African societies believe in several “high gods” and a large amount of lower gods and spirits. Visions derived from hallucinogens were another important form of divination, and are still widely used among contemporary diviners of Mexico. Oracles could answer more generalized questions, and seers often had to perform several sacrifices in order to get the most consistent answer. The introduction of such cards began by the 1930s and reached prominence 1970s. [26][20][21][27], Traditional African medicine is also directly linked to traditional African religions. [citation needed], The disadvantage of seers was that only direct yes-or-no questions could be answered. [33], Although Japan retains a history of traditional and local methods of divination, such as onmyōdō, contemporary divination in Japan, called uranai, derives from outside sources. Leoni, F, C Gruber, and P Lory. [38], Divination is widespread throughout Africa. [33] This includes also nature, elementary and animal spirits. Leoni, F, C Gruber, and P Lory. Main article: African divination See also: Divination. The defining line between deities and ancestors is often contested, but overall, ancestors are believed to occupy a higher level of existence than living human beings and are believed to be able to bestow either blessings or illness upon their living descendants. In her form as the mother of salt waters, she is known as Yemaya. [6][7] In antiquity it was attacked by philosophers such as the Academic skeptic Cicero in De Divinatione and the Pyrrhonist Sextus Empiricus in Against the Astrologers. pp 26-31. [citation needed], The Yoruba people of West Africa are internationally known for having developed the Ifá system, an intricate process of divination that is performed by an Awo, an initiated priest or priestess of Orunmila, the spirit of the Yoruba oracle. pp 31. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Early-20th-century Yoruba divination board. Edited by F Leoni. [17] Traditional African religions also have elements of fetishism, shamanism and veneration of relics. Originally prohibited from practicing African religions, slaves and free people of color mostly frequented the Catholic churches but they carried their African beliefs and over the centuries worked both religions together into one. 2016. p 31. This builds skills at separating the feelings elicited by this mindset from their situational manifestations in daily life. The practice of casting may be done with small objects, such as bones, cowrie shells, stones, strips of leather, or flat pieces of wood. 2016. She is known for healing the sick, cheering the sad, bringing music, song and dance, as well as bringing fertility and prosperity. 2016. In many cases, Africans who have converted to other religions have still kept up their traditional customs and practices, combining them in a syncretic way.[42]. Leoni, F, C Gruber, and P Lory. In recent times, traditional religions, such as the Yoruba religion, are on the rise. The hiera entailed the seer slaughtering a sheep and examining its liver for answers regarding a more generic question; the sphagia involved killing a young female goat by slitting its throat and noting the animal's last movements and blood flow. One religious ceremony practiced in Gabon and Cameroon is the Okuyi, practiced by several Bantu ethnic groups. The will of the gods or spirits is sought by the believer also through consultation of divinities or divination. When there is a positive fall, it is called “Sacred poe”, although the negative falls are not usually taken seriously. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Leoni, F, C Gruber, and P Lory. [16], In Islam, astrology (‘ilm ahkam al-nujum), the most widespread divinatory science, is the study of how celestial entities could be applied to the daily lives of people on earth. We don’t know how these masks were used though. [17][18] It is important to emphasize the practical nature of divinatory sciences because people from all socioeconomic levels and pedigrees sought the advice of astrologers to make important decisions in their lives. [16], Animism builds the core concept of traditional African religions, this includes the worship of tutelary deities, nature worship, ancestor worship and the belief in an afterlife. Schielke, Joska Samuli., and Liza. They have replaced indigenous African religions, but are often adapted to African cultural contexts and belief systems. Some castings are done using sacred divination plates made of wood or performed on the ground (often within a circle). [8][9], Although the majority of Africans today are adherents of Christianity or Islam, African people often combine the practice of their traditional belief with the practice of Abrahamic religions. [34] Contemporary methods of divination in Japan include both Western and Chinese astrology, geomancy or feng shui, tarot cards, I Ching (Book of Changes), and physiognomy (methods of reading the body to identify traits). Particular divination methods vary by culture and religion. Kalis, Simone, "Medecine Traditionnele Religion et Divination Chez Les. Personality type is increasingly important for young Japanese, who consider personality the driving factor of compatibility, given the ongoing marriage drought and birth rate decline in Japan. The Semitic Abrahamic religion of Judaism is comparable to the latter world view. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. [35], Methods of assessment in daily life may include self-taken measurements or quizzes. African traditional religion. Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. He also notes that most modern African folk religions were strongly influenced by non-African religions, mostly Christianity and Islam and thus may differ from the ancient forms. The “science of the sand” (‘ilm al-raml), otherwise translated as geomancy, is “based on the interpretation of figures traced on sand or other surface known as tetragrams.”[21] It is a good example of Islamic divination at a popular level. ), are excited to the point of going into meditative trance in response to rhythmic or driving drumming or singing. [24] Dream interpretation was always tied to Islamic religious texts, providing a moral compass to those seeking advice. “Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural.” Edited by F Leoni. All aspects of weather, thunder, lightning, rain, day, moon, sun, stars, and so on may become amenable to control through the cosmology of African people. [28], In Islamic practice in Senegal and Gambia, just like many other West African countries, diviners and religious leaders and healers were interchangeable because Islam was closely related with esoteric practices (like divination), which were responsible for the regional spread of Islam. [36] Since, the practice of Japanese tarot has become overwhelmingly feminine and intertwined with kawaii culture. Most religions can be described as animistic[4][5] with various polytheistic and pantheistic aspects. In China the “I Ching” had two different purposes. Edited by F Leoni." In the modern era, it has been dismissed by the scientific community and skeptics as being superstition; experiments do not support the idea that divination techniques can actually predict the future more reliably or precisely than would be possible without it. This facilitates better control and transformation of these energies into positive, culturally appropriate behavior, thought, and speech. [37] The deities and spirits are honored through libation or sacrifice (of animals, vegetables, cooked food, flowers, semi-precious stones and precious metals). p 21. ), World Christian Encyclopedia, summarized here, "Ancient African Religion Finds Roots In America", "The Need to Re-Conceptualize African Traditional Religion", The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800, Black God: the Afroasiatic roots of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions, Sayings of the Ancient One - Wisdom from Ancient Africa, culture-exchange.blog/animism-modern-africa, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Traditional_African_religions&oldid=1000976615, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with dead external links from October 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Manjonjo Healers of Chitungwiza of Zimbabwe, Information presented here was gleaned from, Chidester, David. Both oracles and seers in ancient Greece practiced divination. [22] The practice culminated in the appearance of the illustrated “Books of Omens” (Fa’lnamas) in the early 16th century, an embodiment of the apocalyptic fears as the end of the millennium in the Islamic calendar approached. The one edge is rounded while the other is flat; the two are mirror images. Communicating with God through prayer may in some cases be considered divination; both are open, typically two-way conversations with God. [15], Småland is famous for Årsgång, a practice which occurred until the early 19th century in some parts of Småland. [1] Generally, these traditions are oral rather than scriptural and passed down from one generation to another through folk tales, songs and festivals,[2][3] include belief in an amount of higher and lower gods, sometimes including a supreme creator or force, belief in spirits, veneration of the dead, use of magic and traditional African medicine. "Traditional Religion", in his. The Poe translated to English means “moon boards”. [18], Traditional African religions can be broken down into linguistic cultural groups, with common themes. 17–19, Parrinder, Geoffrey. [15], Followers of traditional African religions are also found around the world. In: Island Dynamics Conference on Folk Belief & Traditions of the Supernatural: Experience, Place, Ritual, & Narrative. 2016. Because of the high demand for oracle consultations and the oracles’ limited work schedule, they were not the main source of divination for the ancient Greeks. If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a more formal or ritualistic element and often contains a more social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine. It is seen that it is in the chair by an onset of motion. Japanese tarot cards fall into diverse categories such as: The images on tarot cards may come from images from Japanese popular culture, such as characters from manga and anime including Hello Kitty, or may feature cultural symbols. Shetland Isles, UK, 24–30 March 2014", Seeing Stars: Astrolabes and the Islamic World, "People Types: Personality Classification in Japanese Women's Magazines", "Tantalizing Tarot and Cute Cartomancy in Japan", Art and oracle: African art and rituals of divination, Witchcraft and divination in the Old Testament, A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts, Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Divination&oldid=999981325, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2019, Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, —— n.d. "People Types: Personality classification in Japanese women's magazines. Debevec. There is a small wooden chair, and around the sides of the chair are small pieces of wood that can move up and down in their sockets, this causes a clicking sounds when the chair is moved in any way. 2016. “Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural.” Edited by F Leoni. Peavy, D., (2016). The Santería religion includes many traditions of West African (mainly Yoruba) origin, notably praying to orishas (divine emissaries), many of which have been formally identified with Roman Catholic saints. Still others may feature images of cultural displacement, such as English knights, pentagrams, the Jewish Torah, or invented glyphs. As scholars learned esoteric sciences, they joined local non-Islamic aristocratic courts, who quickly aligned divination and amulets with the “proof of the power of Islamic religion.”[29] So strong was the idea of esoteric knowledge in West African Islam, diviners and magicians uneducated in Islamic texts and Arabic bore the same titles as those who did. [31], When this trance-like state is witnessed and understood, adherents are privy to a way of contemplating the pure or symbolic embodiment of a particular mindset or frame of reference. Fortune-telling, on the other hand, is a more everyday practice for personal purposes. pp 13, 16-17. [35], Individuals can also assess their own and others' personalities according to physical characteristics. This is largely because cosmology and beliefs are intricately intertwined with the natural phenomena and environment. The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of the country of Mali, in the West of the African continent. Blood type remains a popular form of divination from physiology. [14] Laws forbidding divination practice continue to this day. The traditional African religions or traditional beliefs and practices of African people are a set of highly diverse beliefs that includes various ethnic religions. Astrologers, trained as scientists and astronomers, were able to interpret the celestial forces that ruled the "sub-lunar" to predict a variety of information from lunar phases and drought to times of prayer and the foundation of cities. [40][41], Specialized diviners called Ob'guega (doctor of Oguega oracle), as well as Ob'Oronmila (doctor of Oronmila oracle) from the Edo people of West Africa for thousands, have used divination as a means of foretelling the past, present and future. [33] In the Mayan Popol Vuh, the creator gods Xmucane and Xpiacoc perform divinatory hand casting during the creation of people. The divination method of casting lots (Cleromancy) was used by the remaining eleven disciples of Jesus in Acts 1:23-26 to select a replacement for Judas Iscariot. She pours libations, a West African ritual used to honor ancestors — not only her congregation’s, but freedom fighters, cultural and spiritual figures, victims of … The face is the most commonly analyzed feature, with eye size, pupil shape, mouth shape, and eyebrow shape representing the most important traits. As such, magazines targeted at women in their early-to-mid twenties feature the highest concentration of personality assessment guides. These diviners are initiated and trained in Iha (divination) of either Ominigbon or Oronmila (Benin Orunmila). [34] Some recognize a dual god and goddess such as Mawu-Lisa. Since Africa is a large continent with many ethnic groups and cultures, there is not one single technique of casting divination. The religion of the Yoruba is finding roots in the Islands of the Caribbean and portions of Central and South America. [38] Traditional African religions embrace natural phenomena – ebb and tide, waxing and waning moon, rain and drought – and the rhythmic pattern of agriculture. [8], The Oracle of Amun at the Siwa Oasis was made famous when Alexander the Great visited it after conquering Egypt from Persia in 332 BC.[9]. [39], For example, in the Serer religion, one of the most sacred stars in the cosmos is called Yoonir (the Star of Sirius). To make sure the answer is definitely a yes, the blocks must fall in a “yes” position three times in a row. Some African religions adopted different views through the influence of Islam or even Hinduism.[36]. The core principle that meaning derives from a unique occupied position is identical to the core principle of astrology. Tarot cards may adapt the images of Japanese historical figures, such as high priestess Himiko (170–248CE) or imperial court wizard Abe no Seimei (921–1005CE) . That role fell to the seers (Greek: μάντεις). Ancestors (ancestral ghosts/spirits) are an integral part of reality. The traditional healer provides health care services based on culture, religious background, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs that are prevalent in his community. Among Afro-Asiatic-speakers is henotheism, the belief in one's own gods but accepting the existence of other gods; evil here is caused by malevolent spirits. In addition, the method of "casting lots" used in Joshua 14:1-5 and Joshua 18:1-10 to divide the conquered lands of Canaan between the twelve tribes is not seen by some as divination, but as done at the behest of God (Numbers 26:55). pp 21. 2016. In the United States Vudon is more predominant in the states along the Gulf of Mexico. [30], From the beginning of Islam, there "was (and is) still a vigorous debate about whether or not such [divinatory] practices were actually permissible under Islam,” with some scholars like Abu-Hamid al Ghazili (d. 1111) objecting to the science of divination because he believed it bore too much similarity to pagan practices of invoking spiritual entities that were not God. ", Silva, Sonia. ", —— n.d. "Tantalizing tarot and cute cartomancy in Japan. [23][24][20] San religion is generally non-theistic but a belief in a Spirit or Power of existence which can be tapped in a trance-dance; trance-healers. Gods were either self-created or evolved from spirits or ancestors which got worshiped by the people. Diviner (also known as priest) are also sought for their wisdom as counselors in life and for their knowledge of herbal medicine. While some religions adopted a pantheistic worldview, most follow a polytheistic system with various gods, spirits and other supernatural beings. Once in this position, the blocks are dropped and the future can be understood depending on their landing. [citation needed], Personality typing as a form of divination has been prevalent in Japan since the 1980s. [citation needed], Attempt to gain insight into a question or situation, "Divining" redirects here. [36], As seen previous to this section, many different cultures around the world use divination as a way of understanding the future. In some traditional African religions, morality is associated with obedience or disobedience to God regarding the way a person or a community lives. The practitioner needed to be skilled enough to apply the individual dream to general precedent while appraising the singular circumstances. [28], Nigerian American professor of indigenous African religions at Harvard University, Jacob Olupona summarized the many traditional African religions as complex animistic religious traditions and beliefs of the African people before the Christian and Islamic "colonization" of Africa. In traditional African societies, many people seek out diviners on a regular basis. [citation needed], A more serious type of divination is the Kiō-á. p 17. [citation needed], Seers were not in direct contact with the gods; instead, they were interpreters of signs provided by the gods. The adaptation of the Western divination method of tarot cards into Japanese culture presents a particularly unique example of contemporary divination as this adaptation mingles with Japan's robust visual culture. The function of ancient Egyptian masks, however, is better known. "Kings, Magic & Medicine". In Islamic practice in Senegal and Gambia, just like many other West African countries, diviners and religious leaders and healers were interchangeable because Islam was closely related with esoteric practices (like divination), which were responsible for the regional spread of Islam. [1][7], Adherents of traditional religions in sub-Saharan Africa are distributed among 43 countries and are estimated to number over 100 million. According to Gottlieb and Mbiti: The environment and nature are infused in every aspect of traditional African religions and culture. Any personal inconvenience will almost immediately be more than compensated for. The important delineation within the practice lies between “incoherent dreams” and “sound dreams,” which were “a part of prophecy” or heavenly message. The difference between powerful spirits and gods is often minimal. [21][22] New world religions such as Santería, Vodun, and Candomblé, would be derived from this world. 33, no. Among the ... West African masquerades, in particular, belie the generalization that in traditional African cultures there is no such thing as art for art's sake. [30], West and Central African religious practices generally manifest themselves in communal ceremonies or divinatory rites in which members of the community, overcome by force (or ashe, nyama, etc. [13] In the constitution of 1572 and public regulations of 1661 of Kur-Saxony, capital punishment was used on those predicting the future. Monotheism does not reflect the multiplicity of ways that the traditional African spirituality has conceived of deities, gods, and spirit beings. 2016. The characters on the table are then traced and these are said to be written by the god who possessed the chair, these characters are then interpreted. The degree to which seers were honest depends entirely on the individual seers. An upturned mouth may be cheerful, and a triangle eyebrow may indicate that someone is strong-willed. “Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural.” Edited by F Leoni. [32], Followers of traditional African religions pray to various spirits as well as to their ancestors. [Eason, 268] Jade and the Angelic Realm. [11], In 692 the Quinisext Council, also known as the "Council in Trullo" in the Eastern Orthodox Church, passed canons to eliminate pagan and divination practices. Traditional healers are common in most areas, and their practices include a religious element to varying degrees. A belief in ancestors also testifies to the inclusive nature of traditional African spirituality by positing that deceased progenitors still play a role in the lives of their living descendants. Olupona rejects the western/islamic definition of Monotheism or Polytheism and says that such concepts could not reflect the complex African traditions and are simplistic. Leoni, F, C Gruber, and P Lory. The Benin Monarchy, Olokun & Iha Ominigbon. "Object and Objectivity in Divination.". Lugira, Aloysius Muzzanganda. Natural phenomena are responsible for providing people with their daily needs. Divination (from Latin divinare, 'to foresee, to foretell, to predict, to prophesy',[2] related to divinus, 'divine'), or "to be inspired by a god,"[3] is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Stemming from Western influences, body reading or ninsou, determines personality traits based on body measurements. "Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural. “Negative poe” is seen when the flat sides fall downward and abruptly stop, this indicates "No". Despite the doubt surrounding individual seers, the craft as a whole was well regarded and trusted by the Greeks,[10] and the Stoics accounted for the validity of divination in their physics. This page was last edited on 17 January 2021, at 17:22. 2016. According to him, the belief in spirits and ancestors is the most important element of African religions. I started asking the question of who am I meaning all the way back to my roots in Africa. There are approximately 144 different women's magazines, known as nihon zashi koukoku kyoukai, published in Japan aimed at this audience.[35]. An African understanding, The List: The World's Fastest-Growing Religions, "US study sheds light on Africa's unique religious mix", Ian S. Markham,(A World Religions Reader. 2016. The ancestors are generally believed to reside in an ancestral realm (spiritworld), while some believe that the ancestors became equal in power to deities.[29]. He summarizes that traditional African religions are not only religions, but a worldview, a way of life. 2016. Neither force would advance until the seer revealed appropriate omens. See more ideas about african symbols, african, symbols. Personality can also be divined using cardinal directions, the four elements (water, earth, fire, air), and yin-yang. Introduction to African religion. According to Clemmont E. Vontress, the various religious traditions of Africa are united by a basic Animism. Each attempt to reveal glimpses of an individual's destiny, productive and inhibiting traits, future parenting techniques, and compatibility in marriage. Encyclopædia Britannica, (2003), Index of African mythology and creation narratives, List of African deities and mythical figures, Traditional African religion and other religions, Persecution of traditional African religion, "The world of spirits and the respect for nature: towards a new appreciation of animism", "Animism: Foundation of Traditional Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa", What is religion? 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