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03/05/2014

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Term
abusua
Definition

utterain blood group 

- material system of descent 

 

Term
Who makes up a family unit in the akan culture?
Definition
the mother and her kids
Term
Rights of abusua
Definition

1. ciczenship 

2. inheritance 

3. political rights - can suceed to any position 

Term
RESPONSIBILITIES OF ABUSUA
Definition

1. Elected leaderes 

2. shares funeral responsibilities 

3. remember dead 

4. appoints someone to suceed the dead 

5. gathers togerher and shares wealth 

- belongs to mother and her siblings 

Term
Maya
Definition
blood of the mother
Term
sum sum
Definition

spirit 

- which father contributes 

- transmited through semen 

Term
Father
Definition

Has spiritual control of child 

- child named by him 

- controls spirit 

Term
Okra
Definition

divine agency of human soul

- physical being 

soul comes when you inhell your first breath 

 

Term

krado 

 

Definition

Shoulder 

- seat of the soul 

Term
osaman
Definition

physical human being becomes 

- spiritual being ( sumsum ) 

-goes to father's house awaits reincarnation 

 

Term
Nasama
Definition
original woman leader of the after world
Term
Clifford Geertz
Definition

Belived that religion is a system of symboles 

- these symbols represents the group of people 

- has profound efect on people 

Term
" The interpratation of cultures"
Definition
Clifford Geertz
Term
Ak
Definition
Term
Without symbols
Definition

1. order fo existence is the way 

2. False sudo speciation 

3. every human group thinks they are better than other 

Term
According to the Akan who where the 3 children of God?
Definition

1. Darkness 

2. Sun 

3. Moon 

Term
what does the crescent symbolize in Akan culure?
Definition
it is the father of he Akan
Term
pseudospeciation
Definition
1. false notion that we humans are the special when infact we're not
Term
Reactionary pseudospeciation
Definition
- when something goes wrong humans blame other groups and go to war with them
Term
Ancestrial Stool
Definition

- Religious symbol 

- spiritual symbol - occupant become

-socio political and spiritual leader 

Term
what happens when you enter an akan home?
Definition

1. they get you a stool 

2. offer you water 

3. asks for your mission 

Term
Importance of stool
Definition

1. Community stability 

2. that a cimmunity exsts 

3. Every child must have a stool - soul must be seated by father 

* must have gold ring 

Term
What is used to make stool?
Definition

1. Black Dover 

2. Egg Yolk 

Term
who owns the Goldern stool
Definition
1. the asante people
Term
Golden stool
Definition

1. must come out every 5 years so peole know it is in good hands 

2. Genuine stool - must have mysterious origin 

3. Stool must have external origin 

4. Must have diety to protect it 

Term
KINGS OF ASANTE
Definition

1.  Osie tutu - first king -soul wandered because he was shot so body was never buried 

2. Prempeth the 2nd 

3. OKowari 2nd 

Term
Nubian
Definition
- the 25 th dynasty -  which became ethiopia
Term
Kings of Nubia
Definition

1. Kastar 

2. Pianki 

3. Shabaka 

4. Tahaqar 

Term
Shabaka stone
Definition

found in london musuem 

1. was copy an old sripture from papyrus 

- first sign of God 

Term
Ptah
Definition

God 

Horus - heart to God 

thoth - tongue 

Term
Attributes of Ptah
Definition

1. self created, self existant eternal

2. Mind of the earth - knows all things world and underworld 

3. God mealy a form of his thoughts 

Birim - rive that is made up of diamonds

Densu - Godess with 3 heads 

Term
William Bossman
Definition
"New and accurate coast of Guinea"
Term
Bossman Believed
Definition

Aficans believed that God 

1. powerful - all knowing 

2. No physical representation 

3. God worshiped through Gods 

 

Term

The Akan 

Odomankuma Nyame

Definition

The everlasting God

Darknesss was the first son of God 

- created the earth 

Term
God is Odo
Definition
God is love
Term
odo ye wu
Definition
love is death
Term
God is Self evident
Definition

Obi nyene obfra Nyame 

- no one hase to point god out to children 

Term
God is Diri
Definition
gid is wind/ wind
Term
God is sum sum
Definition
spirit
Term
God is okra
Definition
God is the life Giver
Term

 Yoruba 

Ase 

Definition

Life force originated with OLODUMARE 

- gives to seen and unseen 

Term
How does the yoruba feel about destinity?
Definition

1. use priest to determine destiny of a person 

what god ha in store 

Term
Ori
Definition

head destinity carried on head 

based on sex 

Term
Yoruba
Definition
God created earth in 4 days and rested the 5th day
Term
Okuno
Definition

Husband 

 

- Okuno - death 

Term
Yeri
Definition
wife
Term
7 attributes of Akan god
Definition

Asi- sunday 

adwo - monday 

abena - tuesday 

ku - wed 

awo - thrusday 

afi - friday 

saturday - amen 

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