Nyama

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place in nature worship

  • Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
    In nature worship: Nature as a sacred totality

    …the saints, and the power Nyama in the western Sudan that works as a force within large wild animals, certain bush spirits, and physically handicapped people—appearing especially as a contagious power of revenge—may be added with a certain justification to that force of nature that is designated by mana. A…

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