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V09 :: Leoparden i hemliga sällskap

Object description

Hemliga sällskap kallas sammanslutningar som kräver invigning och har politiska, ekonomiska och medicinska roller i ett samhälle. Ofta anses sällskapen vårda mystisk kunskap och kraft som bara görs tillgänglig för de enskilda medlemmarna gradvis och efter svåra prov. Många sällskap i Nigeria och Kamerun hämtar sin mystiska kraft från leoparden, som också gett sällskapen sina namn, ekpe eller ngbe.

I det enorma område som idag är de båda Kongostaterna fanns liknande hemliga sällskap som hade leopardens ande som källa till sin makt. Nzobi och flera andra sällskap fanns så sent som på 1960-talet hos kuta-folket nära Zanaga i Kongo-Brazzaville. Detta var en sammanslutning som erbjöd sina medlemmar helande för olika fysiska och andliga sjukdomar. Centrala i ritualerna var dessa figurer, som förkroppsligar nzobi och ngo, leopardanden.

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Leoparden i hemliga sällskap

Titel, engelska

The Leopard in Secret Societies

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Beskrivning - engelska

Associations which require initiation and have political, economic, and medical roles in a society, are called secret societies. Often the societies are thought to guard mysterious knowledge and power, that is only made available to the individual members gradually and after difficult tests. Many societies in Nigeria and Cameroon derive their mysterious power from the leopard, which also gave the societies their names, Ekpe or Ngbe.

In the vast area that today forms the two Congo states, there were similar secret societies with the leopard's spirit as the source of their power. Nzobi and several other societies existed as late as the 1960s among the the Kuta people near Zanaga in Congo-Brazzaville. This was an association that offered its members the healing of various physical and spiritual illnesses. Central to the rituals were these figures which embody Nzobi and Ngo, the leopard spirit.

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Magasinet - V :: Leopardens fläckar

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