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West African Dahomean Vodoun - http://www.mamiwata.com/
Large site created by an African-American Priestess, to initiate others across the diaspora. Site features both Dahomean Vodoun and Mami Wata traditions of West Africa, with articles on these and other ATRs in Benin, Togo, and Ghana; bibliography; links to related pages. |
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Akan Cosmology and Symbolism - http://www.marshall.edu/akanart/akancosmology.html
This site describes Akan cosmology and illustrates it through traditional Akan religious symbols, each of which encodes within its graceful lines a theological or moral belief or lesson. The integration of this rich traditional Akan symbolism into the Roman Catholicism of Ghana is shown, as well. |
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Man and the Gods in Yoruba Art - http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/man.html
An exhibit of Yoruba religious art, with brief explantions of the iconography of the deities depicted. |
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Voodoo in Benin, 1996 - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/011.html
In 1996 the government of Benin declared that Voodoo and other ATRs (practiced by about half of the population) are officially recognized religions on a par with Islam and Christianity, and gave ATR its own national holiday, January 10. |
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West African Cosmogony - http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/cosmo.html
Origin Myths of Mande, Yoruba, and Cameroon. |