Venus, Issa, and the Moon Dog: Why Is There a Seventeenth Sign of Fa? Essay on the Historical Anthropology of Geomancy (Gulf of Benin, Islamized West Africa, Western Europe)
Like Arabic and Latin geomancy in the Middle Ages, Fa divination on the Benin Coast uses sixteen fundamental signs. Beyond their common formal structure, do these divinatory systems share content? The analysis focuses on a seventeenth fundamental sign (Oche Tula), conceived of as the messenger sign...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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International journal of divination and prognostication
Year: 2021, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 125-170 |
Further subjects: | B
Divination
B Fon B Islam B Ifa B Europe B Africa B Middle Ages B Yoruba B Anthropology B geomancy B History |
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